A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
O. HENRYThere was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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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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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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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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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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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