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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.

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.
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Anand Thakur
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRY

Cash Live People Time
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
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
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
O. HENRY

Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
O. HENRY

Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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?
O. HENRY

Expectation Ocean World
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 was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY

Achieve Climate Ourselves
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRY

Love Man Poverty Taste War
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. HENRY

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
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
O. HENRY

Forget Please Story Writing Yourself

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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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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