You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman'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 More Quotes by O. Henry More Quotes From O. Henry I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer. O. Henry my-life never like life I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty. O. Henry never now reading time