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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

William Feather

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William Feather
Age: 91 †
Born: 1889
Born: August 25
Died: 1981
Died: January 7
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Jamestown
New York
Pleasures
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Pleasure
Business
Makes
Always
Interfering
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