Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
O. HENRYHospitality 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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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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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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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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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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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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