To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRYWhat is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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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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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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