No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRYAll great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
More O. Henry Quotes
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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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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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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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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