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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

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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
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
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself

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