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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

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
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
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

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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