No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRYIf a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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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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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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