What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
O. HENRYThose whom we first love we seldom marry.
More O. Henry Quotes
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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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.
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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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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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