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Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

Owen Feltham

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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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Owen Felltham
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Putrefaction
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Smack
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Business
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