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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

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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
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
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
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
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
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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

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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