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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.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
O. HENRY

Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
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
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Tears Weapon 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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
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
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Cash Live People Time
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold 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.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service

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