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A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

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E. W. Howe
Age: 84 †
Born: 1853
Born: May 3
Died: 1937
Died: October 3
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Journalist
Novelist
Edgar Watson Howe
Probability
Reasonable
Certainty
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Everyone hates a martyr it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.
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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
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A poem is no place for an idea.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
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The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
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