A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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When 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.
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No friendship is an accident.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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