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Women’s weapon, water-drops.

O. Henry

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
O. HENRY

Anand Thakur
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
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
O. HENRY

Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
O. HENRY

Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
O. HENRY

Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
O. HENRY

Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRY

Cash Live People Time
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRY

Art Himself Respect Time
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.
O. HENRY

Ethnicity Identity Race State
No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRY

Accident Friendship
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
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. HENRY

Fair Move Soul Wire
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. HENRY

Invisible Strand Woman
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRY

Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRY

Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
O. HENRY

Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story

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