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You can't appreciate home till 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.

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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
Money
Foreign
Broomsticks
Home
Towns
Joined
Spent
Hanging
Appreciate
Club
Glory
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Town
Shanty
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Consul
Left
Clubs
Broomstick

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