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.
O. HENRYAll great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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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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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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No friendship is an accident.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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