A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRYIt’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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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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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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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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