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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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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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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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Beauty is Nature in perfection circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the round of drinks.
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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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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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry
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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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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
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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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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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Bolivar cannot carry double
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Women's weapon, water-drops.
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No friendship is an accident.
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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 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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