Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRY
O. HENRY
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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.
O. HenryO. Henry Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
O. HenryO. Henry When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
O. HenryO. Henry Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
O. HenryO. Henry We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HenryO. Henry Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
O. HenryO. Henry If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
O. HenryO. Henry It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HenryO. Henry To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HenryO. Henry Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HenryO. Henry We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HenryO. Henry If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
O. HenryO. Henry Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. HenryO. Henry There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HenryO. Henry Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HenryO. Henry 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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