O. Henry Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, War Quotes

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

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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 heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

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

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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

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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 Jersey on the other?

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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

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Bolivar cannot carry double

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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 the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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

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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

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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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