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

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