The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRYIf you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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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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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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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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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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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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