"Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited.……" — O. Henry
"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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64 Quotes by O. Henry
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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,…
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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…
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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits…
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love,…
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life
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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship…
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