There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRYIt’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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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