O. Henry Quotes, Christmas Quotes, Wise Quotes

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

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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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We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

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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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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

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

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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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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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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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 see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

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