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When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

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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
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Faces
Else
Anything
Make
Wash
Boys

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