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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

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
Tell
Grave
Nature
Graves
Young
Fellow
Heart
Fellows
Shovel
Men
Pick
Shovels
Love
Picks
Robbers
Girls
Hustle
Girl
Observe

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