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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

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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
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
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule 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
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
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
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
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

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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