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When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, He is better off.

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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
Glad
Dies
Better
Men

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