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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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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
Men
Saws
Couldn
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Personal
Another
Grudge
Hands
Dollar
Take
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Way
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