My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
O. HENRYHospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
More O. Henry Quotes
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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