We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRYPerhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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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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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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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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No friendship is an accident.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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