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Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.


Edward Finlason

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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 It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
EDWARD GARDNER