O. Henry Quotes, Journey Quotes, Soul Quotes

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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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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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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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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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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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

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