Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HENRYPerhaps 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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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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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 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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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No friendship is an accident.
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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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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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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