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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

O. Henry

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
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
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.
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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word

If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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