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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

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
Literature
Talking
Half
Business
Men
Time
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Wasting

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