Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRYIf man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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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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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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