Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRYMost wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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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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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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No friendship is an accident.
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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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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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