Carolina QuotesNot very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen — the census taker — and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million."
O. Henry Carolinian
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Preface
- work
- The Four Million (1906)
- year
- 1906
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