Four Belated Appreciations From William Sydney Porter

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At birth, his name was
William Sydney Porter 

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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O HENRY

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