Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
O. HENRYWe may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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