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My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
Approximate author period: c. 1886 AD · industrial
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- O. Henry
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- Approximate author period: c. 1886 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to O. Henry, based on documented lifetime 1862 to 1910. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172788 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172788 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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