There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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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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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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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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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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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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