Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
O. HENRYThe true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
More O. Henry Quotes
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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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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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 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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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