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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

O. Henry

If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Domination Down Moral Reflection Smile
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

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