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Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

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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