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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.

O. Henry

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRY

Art Himself Respect Time
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY

Achieve Climate Ourselves
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 good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
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
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
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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.

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