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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

O. Henry

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRY

Art Himself Respect Time
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
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
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
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
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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.
O. HENRY

Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
O. HENRY

Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
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
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
O. HENRY

Tears Weapon Woman

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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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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