By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRYFortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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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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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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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 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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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