A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
O. HENRYExcept in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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