If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
O. HENRYWhenever 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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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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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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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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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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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 good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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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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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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