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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

O. Henry

It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY

Greatness Place
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
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
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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Anand Thakur
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True

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