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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 may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY

Achieve Climate Ourselves
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRY

Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
O. HENRY

Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
O. HENRY

Ethnicity Identity Race State
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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 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
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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.
O. HENRY

Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
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.
O. HENRY

Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way

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

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