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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

O. Henry

It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY

Greatness Place
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.
O. HENRY

Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
O. HENRY

Clear Couch
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRY

Air Hot Show Vote Way
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
O. HENRY

Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
O. HENRY

Creativity Pill Story
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY

Darkness Home Light Myself
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
O. HENRY

Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
O. HENRY

Contact Difference Man Privilege
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRY

Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
O. HENRY

Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
O. HENRY

Animal Communication Human Talk Together
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HENRY

Happiness Life Perfection
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
O. HENRY

Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HENRY

Ourselves Road Travel Way
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
O. HENRY

Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself

The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

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