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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

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
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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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
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
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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

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

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