Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
O. HENRYWhen a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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