It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRYA burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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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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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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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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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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