Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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No friendship is an accident.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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