Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
O. HENRYHistory is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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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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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 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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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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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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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 man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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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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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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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 was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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