A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRYIt’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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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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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.
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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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