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A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

E. W. Howe

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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
Motivational

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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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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.
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When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, He is better off.
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We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
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There is only one thing people like that is good for them a good night's sleep.
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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
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A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
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Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
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It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.
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You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.
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Good manners do more for a man that good looks.
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Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.
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When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.
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A conquered foe should be watched.
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Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.
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