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By and large to do it [circumcision] as a routine practice for everyone doesn't strike me as sound practice from a health point of view.


Edward Laumann

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EDWARD EVERETT Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borr...
EDWARD BLISHEN I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
EDWARD GIBBON What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
EDWARD DAHLBERG Every decision you make is a mistake.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the sub...
EDWARD GIBBON Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is...
EDWARD DAHLBERG It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, a...
EDWARD DAHLBERG