O. Henry Quotes

Bolivar cannot carry double.

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Whirligigs - 1910 - The Roads We Take

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Man is too thoroughly an egoist not to be also an egotist; if he love, the object shall know it. During a lifetime he may conceal it through stress of expediency and honour, but it shall bubble from...

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Whirligigs - 1910 - Blind Man's Holiday

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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

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Whirligigs - 1910 - A Little Local Color

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Take of London fog 30 parts; Malaria 10 parts Gas leaks 20 parts Dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts Odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate...

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The Four Million - 1906 - Strictly Business - 1910 - A Municipal Report

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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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The Four Million - 1906 - Strictly Business - 1910 - A Municipal Report

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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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The Four Million - 1906 - Strictly Business - 1910 - The Gold that Glittered

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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint - the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership.

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The Four Million - 1906 - Strictly Business - 1910 - A Ramble in Aphasia

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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 women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a...

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Roads of Destiny - 1909 - The Fourth in Salvador

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

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Roads of Destiny - 1909 - Next to Reading Matter

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If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York.

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The Gentle Grafter - 1908 - A Tempered Wind

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