She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. HENRYIt’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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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