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Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.

E. W. Howe

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E. W. Howe
Age: 84 †
Born: 1853
Born: May 3
Died: 1937
Died: October 3
Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Edgar Watson Howe
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Everybody
Promiscuity
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Polygamy
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Equally
Well
Loves
Loving
Friend

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