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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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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