O. Henry Quotes

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• You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you…
• 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…
• There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he…
• There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
• There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home…
• If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
• If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York
• If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life
• There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.
• Write what you like; there is no other rule.
• It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the…
• Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
• When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard,
• Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
• Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying…
• Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the…
• Women's weapon, water-drops.

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