History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRYBroadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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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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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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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.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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No friendship is an accident.
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