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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.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Baseball Quotes , Running Quotes
  • If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : O. Henry Quotes , New York Quotes , Feet Quotes
  • She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.
  • 4 years ago



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