A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRYMen to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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