When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRYMy 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.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Whenever 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.
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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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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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