Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of 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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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