Quote#Money & Wealth
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent,…
Quote byO. Henry · 1862–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Roads of Destiny (1909), "The Fourth in Salvador".
English (original)
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
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