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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.

O. Henry

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

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