Between blasts she resorted to Epictetian philosophy in the form of pepsin chewing gum. - O. Henry

In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling — something

I hate it as one hates sin or pestilence or — the color work in a ten-cent magazine.