Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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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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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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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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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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