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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

Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
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

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

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