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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HenryO. Henry What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
O. HenryO. Henry By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HenryO. Henry A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HenryO. Henry 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.
O. HenryO. Henry 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.
O. HenryO. Henry Women’s weapon, water-drops.
O. HenryO. Henry When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
O. HenryO. Henry Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
O. HenryO. Henry The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
O. HenryO. Henry It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HenryO. Henry O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
O. HenryO. Henry Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HenryO. Henry Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HenryO. Henry What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
O. HenryO. Henry If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Our only limitation is that we only believe what is visible to our eyes and audible to our ears.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel Some days, you will be close to the finish line and still not make it.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell HooksBell Hooks I separated someplace for each person in my heart, But she claimed to be the owner of it.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander Modern-day love stories are born not out of love, but a tired mind and a restless heart.
Puneet MehraPuneet Mehra Forcing things only creates more tension in the mind. Let go.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase It doesn’t take courage to find peace in the arms of destiny. It takes faith.
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