Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HENRYTurn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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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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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY