If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
O. HENRYWe can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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No friendship is an accident.
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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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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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