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.
O. HENRYMost wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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No friendship is an accident.
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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 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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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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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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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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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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.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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