There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRYThere is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRYThere 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.
O. HENRYThose whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRYThere is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
O. HENRYA 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.
O. HENRYThis fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. HENRYYou can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
O. HENRYTurn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRYBe 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.
O. HENRYShe plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. HENRYWhen 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.
O. HENRYA burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRYIt’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.
O. HENRYThere is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRYMost wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRYThe true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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