By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRYAll great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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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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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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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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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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