When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
O. HENRY
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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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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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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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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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