When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRYIt was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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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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