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You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

Edna Ferber

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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Appleton
Wisconsin
Unless
Lose
Loses
Ends
Wheel
Wheels
Fixed

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here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
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Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.
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