Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
O. HENRYIf you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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 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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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