Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
O. HENRYO all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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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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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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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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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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