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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
Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Edgar Watson Howe
Probability
Reasonable
Certainty
Motivational

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A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
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