Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
O. HENRYWhenever 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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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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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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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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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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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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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