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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.

O. Henry

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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

Rule 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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. HENRY

Gold Greatness Wash
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HENRY

Happiness Life Perfection
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
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 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
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.
O. HENRY

Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
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

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