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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

O. Henry

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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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

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