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

O. Henry

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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Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
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
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
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
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY

Art Love Oneself Service

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