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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

It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY

Greatness Place
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
O. HENRY

Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
O. HENRY

Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
O. HENRY

Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
O. HENRY

Journey Mystery Soul World
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
O. HENRY

Life Live Person Poverty War
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
O. HENRY

Expectation Ocean World
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY

Conversation Existence Taste
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
O. HENRY

Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRY

Love Marriage
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.
O. HENRY

Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY

Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship

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.

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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.

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