Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
O. HENRY
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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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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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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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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