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No friendship is an accident.

Heart of the West

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

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

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words wh...

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I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but y...

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

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard ...

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The Complete Works of O. Henry

Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I str...

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The Complete Works of O. Henry

She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary b...

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The Complete Life of John Hopkins

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

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. Santone, then, cannot be blamed for this cold...

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Short Stories

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the man...

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The Gift of the Magi

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

The Last Leaf

Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associate...

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Whirligigs

According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their p...

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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...

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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of p...

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The Complete Works of O. Henry

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

You can't appreciate home until you've left it money till it's spent your wife till she's joined a...

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.

My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your b...

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Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.

Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.

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O. Henry

Writer

Born: 1862-09-11

Died: 1910-06-05

O. Henry (11 September 1862 – 5 June 1910) was the pen name of William Sydney Porter, a short-story writer famous for his use of twist endings.More