Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
O. HENRYThere was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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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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No friendship is an accident.
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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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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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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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