American - Writer | September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. Henry
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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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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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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