We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRYA good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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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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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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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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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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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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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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