If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life - O. Henry

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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

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O. Henry (11 September 1862 – 5 June 1910) was the pen name of William Sydney Porter, a short-story writer famous for his use of twist endings.

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Native Name: William Sydney Porter
Alternative Names: Olivier Henry Oliver Henry
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"action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if he had used the phrases: "Gaze, as it were, unpreoccupied, outward — or rather laterally — in the direction of the horizon, underlaid, so to speak, with the adjacent fluid inlet," and "Now, returning — or rather, in a manner, withdrawing your attention, bestow it upon my upraised digit" — I'll bet, I say, that Henry James himself could have passed the examination."

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