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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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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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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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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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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. Little old New York's good enough for us--that's what they sing.
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It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
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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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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'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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