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The problem is, once people think a certain way about you, it's hard to get it out of their heads.


Edward Averett

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EDWARD DAHLBERG It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, a...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspire...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enig...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
EDWARD SIMMONS The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
EDWARD GIBBON If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
EDWARD GARDNER All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
EDWARD GIBBON None think the great unhappy, but the great.
EDWARD YOUNG