Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRYWe may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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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 one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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No friendship is an accident.
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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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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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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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