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A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
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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Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
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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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The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in
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It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.
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I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.
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