There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRYThere is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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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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No friendship is an accident.
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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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