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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

E. W. Howe

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E. W. Howe
Age: 84 †
Born: 1853
Born: May 3
Died: 1937
Died: October 3
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Journalist
Novelist
Edgar Watson Howe
Truthful
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Talk
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Uncontrollable

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