By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HENRYInject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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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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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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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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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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