We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRYWhenever 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.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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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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No friendship is an accident.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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