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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

O. Henry

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. HENRY

Fair Move Soul Wire
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
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
O. HENRY

Life Live Person Poverty War
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRY

Love Marriage
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
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
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
O. HENRY

Anand Thakur
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.
O. HENRY

Decent Home Limitation Right 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
No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRY

Accident Friendship
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
O. HENRY

Animal Communication Human Talk Together
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
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.
O. HENRY

Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work

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