There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRYTo a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
More O. Henry Quotes
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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