History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRYWhenever 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.
More O. Henry Quotes
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No friendship is an accident.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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