O. Henry on worship
O. Henry69 quotes“To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.”
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HenryO. Henry We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HenryO. Henry If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
O. HenryO. Henry Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. HenryO. Henry There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HenryO. Henry Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HenryO. Henry 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.
O. HenryO. Henry Whenever 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.
O. HenryO. Henry She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
O. HenryO. Henry Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HenryO. Henry Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
O. HenryO. Henry Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HenryO. Henry No friendship is an accident.
O. HenryO. Henry 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?
O. HenryO. Henry By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HenryO. Henry A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HenryO. Henry
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