Carolina QuotesYou 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 Carolinian
Source
"The Fourth in Salvador"
- work
- Roads of Destiny (1909)
- year
- 1909
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