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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

When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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
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
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Cash Live People Time
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves

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.

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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.

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