This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. HENRYLife is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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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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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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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 true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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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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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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