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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

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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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A man has his clothes made to fit him a woman makes herself fit her clothes.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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A conquered foe should be watched.
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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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No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less
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If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
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