He studied cities as women study their reflections.
O. HENRYNo friendship is an accident.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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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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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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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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 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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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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