"I know you. I have heard of you all my life. I know now what a scourge you have been to your country. Instead of killing fools you have been murdering the youth and genius that are necessary to make a people live and grow great. You are a fool yourself, Holmes; you began killing off the brightest and best of our countrymen three generations ago, when the old and obsolete standards of society and honor and orthodoxy were narrow and bigoted. You proved that when you put your murderous mark upon my friend Kerner β the wisest chap I ever knew in my life."
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O. Henry
O. Henry (11 September 1862 β 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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