#hi

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ↗

— O. Henry

#invisible #lapel #ownership #plucked #proclaim

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

— O. Henry

#business #family #love #man #nothing

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. ↗

— O. Henry

#blows #hot #only #shows #straw

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills. ↗

— O. Henry

#away #beyond #bohemia #citizenship #country

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#approaches #attention #downright #everyone #force

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#dear #family #give #i #indeed

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#bible #books #ever #other #printed

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#citizenship #commerce #health #necessary #perfect

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#alone #battle #brave #god #make

It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough. ↗

— Thierry Henry

#because #been #dad #demanding #did