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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HenryO. Henry 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. HenryO. Henry 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.
O. HenryO. Henry Women’s weapon, water-drops.
O. HenryO. Henry When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
O. HenryO. Henry Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
O. HenryO. Henry The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
O. HenryO. Henry It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HenryO. Henry O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
O. HenryO. Henry Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HenryO. Henry Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HenryO. Henry What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
O. HenryO. Henry If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
O. HenryO. Henry The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HenryO. Henry 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.
O. HenryO. Henry 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.
O. HenryO. Henry
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