We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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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 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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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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