Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
O. HENRYShe plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
More O. Henry Quotes
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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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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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’ll be a great place if they ever finish 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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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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!
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