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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry
Vote
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. Henry
Old
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. Henry
Conversation
Existence
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. Henry
Men
Time
Women
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. Henry
Time
Women
Man
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
People
Race
State
By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. Henry
Rights
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. Henry
Old
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
O. Henry
Citizenship
Country
Court
Nothing
Treasure
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry
Fate
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. Henry
Nature
Habit
Choice
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
O. Henry
Love
Wind
World
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry
Life
Smiles
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry
Act
Woman
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. Henry
American
Day
Thanksgiving