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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

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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
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
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
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

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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