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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

O. Henry

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
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
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
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
O. HENRY

Anand Thakur
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. HENRY

Gold Greatness Wash
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side

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