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.
O. HENRYIt ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
More O. Henry Quotes
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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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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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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No friendship is an accident.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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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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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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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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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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