There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
O. HENRYWomen’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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