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O. Henry

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
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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Love Man Poverty Taste War
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Domination Down Moral Reflection Smile
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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.
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Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
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.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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

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