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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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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
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Life
Reversible
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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Women's weapon, water-drops.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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