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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

O. Henry

It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HENRY

Ourselves Road Travel Way
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
O. HENRY

Reflection Study Woman
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
O. HENRY

Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY

Dominate Life Smile
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
O. HENRY

Lamp Myself Stand
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
O. HENRY

Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
O. HENRY

Contact Difference Man Privilege
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
O. HENRY

Life Live Person Poverty War
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

Rule Writing Yourself
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.
O. HENRY

Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
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.
O. HENRY

Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
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
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

Animal Communication Human Talk Together
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRY

Love Marriage
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. HENRY

Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
O. HENRY

Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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