Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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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 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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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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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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I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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