The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
O. HENRYMy 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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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’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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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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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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 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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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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