“You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women'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 , book Roads of Destiny

"The Fourth in Salvador"
Roads of Destiny (1909)

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American short story writer 1862–1910

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