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

O. Henry

He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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Anand Thakur
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
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
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
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
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand 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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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman

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

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