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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

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
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
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves

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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