If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
O. HENRYYoung 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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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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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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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