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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

O. Henry

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

Art Himself Respect Time
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
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
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
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
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
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

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