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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

O. Henry

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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
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
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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Myself Secret Story Writing
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
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

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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