We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRYA burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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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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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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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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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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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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No friendship is an accident.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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