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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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O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
Journalist
Writer
Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
Oliver Henry
Words
Shadows
Business
Patriotism
Art
Shadow
Nothing
Poverty
Men
Food
Love
Poor
Religion
Family
Starving

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