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O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
Journalist
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Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
Oliver Henry
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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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Bolivar cannot carry double
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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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 conception of a Nashville drizzle.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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 seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.
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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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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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