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Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

E. W. Howe

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E. W. Howe
Age: 84 †
Born: 1853
Born: May 3
Died: 1937
Died: October 3
Editor
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Novelist
Edgar Watson Howe
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Everything
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