It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRYThose whom we first love we seldom marry.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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