When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRYHistory is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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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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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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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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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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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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 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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