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Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

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
Business
Sense
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Finance
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Knowing

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