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Roads of Destiny

Roads of Destiny
O. Henry

Roads of Destiny is a story collection by O. Henry, published in 1909. There are twenty-two stories.

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“History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.”

O. Henry book Roads of Destiny

"Next to Reading Matter"
Roads of Destiny (1909)

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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 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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