To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRYWhat is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
More O. Henry Quotes
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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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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 one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Bride 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.
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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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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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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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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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