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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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