Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
O. HENRYBride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
More O. Henry Quotes
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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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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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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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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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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