O. Henry Quotes

Bolivar cannot carry double

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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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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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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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

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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 to irritate your conscience.

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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

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

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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 court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

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[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

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It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

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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 in fiction.

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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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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 the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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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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