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.
O. HENRYPerhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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