Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
O. HENRYBy nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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No friendship is an accident.
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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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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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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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