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Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

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