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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal. (O. Henry)
It'll be a great place if they ever finish it. View quote
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. View quote
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Take it from me - he's got the goods. View quote
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! View quote
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. View quote
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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed. View quote
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it. View quote
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There are many kinds of fools. Now, will everybody please sit still until they are called upon specifically to rise? View quote
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`Who are they?' I asked. `Why,' said he, `they are the men who hired working-girls, and paid 'em five or six dollars a week to live on. Are you one of the bunch?' `Not on your immortality,' said I. `I'm only the fellow that set fire to an orphan asylum, and murdered a blind man for his pennies.' View quote
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Now, there was a woman that would have tempted an anchovy to forget his vows. She was not so small as she was large; and a kind of welcome air seemed to mitigate her vicinity. The pink of her face was the in hoc signo of a culinary temper and a warm disposition, and her smile would have brought out the dogwood blossoms in December. (O. Henry)
We are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs. View quote
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I hated Kerner, and one day I met him and we became friends. View quote
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Man is too thoroughly an egoist not to be also an egotist; if he love, the object shall know it. During a lifetime he may conceal it through stress of expediency and honour, but it shall bubble from his dying lips, though it disrupt a neighbourhood. It is known, however, that most men do not wait so long to disclose their passion. View quote
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But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi. View quote
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I know you. I have heard of you all my life. I know now what a scourge you have been to your country. Instead of killing fools you have been murdering the youth and genius that are necessary to make a people live and grow great. View quote
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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. View quote
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Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark. View quote
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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. View quote
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Women's weapon, water-drops. View quote
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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other. (O. Henry)
There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other. View quote
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I hated Kerner, and one day I met him and we became friends. He was young and gloriously melancholy because his spirits were so high and life had so much in store for him. Yes, he was almost riotously sad. That was his youth. When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair. View quote
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