Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRYBy rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
More O. Henry Quotes
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No friendship is an accident.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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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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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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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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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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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