He studied cities as women study their reflections.
O. HENRYMost wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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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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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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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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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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No friendship is an accident.
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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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