The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRYBe always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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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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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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