Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HENRYBy rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
More O. Henry Quotes
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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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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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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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