Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRYHe studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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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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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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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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