O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
O. HENRYThe true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
More O. Henry Quotes
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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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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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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 straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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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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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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