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Category: O. Henry

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

I Am, Choice, Places

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!

Love, Family, Art

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

realistic, expectations

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

new, yotk, city

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

You can’t appreciate home until 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.

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

love, man, woman

According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker. – The World And The Door

She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.

love, the-pendulum, wife

Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.

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

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