It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRYIt was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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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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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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We 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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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