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. HENRYA good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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 straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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