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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
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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Edgar Watson Howe
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We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
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Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.
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