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No friendship is an accident.

O. Henry

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O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
Journalist
Writer
Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
Oliver Henry
Accident
Accidents
Inspiring
Friendship
Friends

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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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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It ain't the roads we take it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Women's weapon, water-drops.
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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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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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