O. Henry Quotes About May

• My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

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  Bravery   Advice   Coward  

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

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  Past   Men   Gloves  

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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

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  Weather   Climate   May  

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.13, Penguin

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• Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

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  Adventure   Shadow   May  

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1277, Delphi Classics

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• There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

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  Truth   Honesty   Lines  

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.2395, ShandonPress

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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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  Grief   Grieving   Differences  

  O. Henry (2015). “The Trimmed Lamp”, p.139, Booklassic

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