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E. W. Howe
Age: 84 †
Born: 1853
Born: May 3
Died: 1937
Died: October 3
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Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.
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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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When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.
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Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.
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