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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. Henry
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O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
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Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
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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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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Women's weapon, water-drops.
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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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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 are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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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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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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