O. Henry

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

— O. Henry

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

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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 you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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“Give me a cuckoo clock and a Sep Winner's Self-Instructor for the Banjo, and I'll join you.”

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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that…

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“The note that she struck had beaten down the doors of a closed memory; and Father Abram held his lost Aglaia close…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop…

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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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There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.

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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent,…

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Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on…

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There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to…

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You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even…

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But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the…

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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead…

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Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts;…

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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“Life is full of sniffles sobs and smiles. With sniffles predominating.”

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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to…

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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…

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“Then it's not,' says I, 'and we're after having a pleasant evening, Miss Flynn. Have ye seen the sights of this new…

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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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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at…

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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à…

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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New…

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“little more than a whimpering oyster led to be devoured on the sands of a Southern sea by the artful walrus, Circumstance,…

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“Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three…

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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…

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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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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass…

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