It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRYIt was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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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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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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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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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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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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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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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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