Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRYBride 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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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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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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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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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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