We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRYWe may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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Young 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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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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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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