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

O. Henry

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.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
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
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 a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
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

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

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