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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.

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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
Trying
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Obtain
Moving
Packs
Away
Citizenship
Littles
Royal
Live
Hills
Retinue
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Treasure
Bohemia
Nothing
Court
Archives
Country
Beyond
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