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It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Edward Carpenter
British poet and academic

Edward Carpenter was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivisection. As a philosopher he was particularly known for his publication of Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure. Here he described civilisation as a form of disease through which human societies pass.
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If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Edward Bellamy
American author and socialist

Edward Bellamy was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas.
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Edward Bach
British physician/homeopath/bacteriologist/spiritual writer

Edward Bach was a British doctor, bacteriologist, homeopath, and spiritual writer, best known for developing the Bach flower remedies, a form of alternative medicine inspired by classical homeopathic traditions.
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter (1863–1944)

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream (1893), has become an iconic image of the art world.
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It is not true that life is one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
American poet

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She gained fame with a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. A road accident in 1936 left her partially disabled, as well as both morphine and alcohol-dependent.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Edna Ferber
American novelist, short story writer and playwright

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960.
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This life's a hollow bubble, don't you know? Just a painted piece of twouble, don't you know? We come to earth to cwy, we gwow oldeh and we sigh, oldeh still, and then we die! Don't you know?

Edmund Vance Cooke
Canadian-American poet

Edmund Vance Cooke was a 19th- and 20th-century poet best remembered for his inspirational verse "How Did You Die?"
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There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement. It must weave a social fabric in which the most important strands are a devotion to truth and a commitment to righteousness. These are essential ingredients of the American way of life. They are the necessary conditions for the achievement of freedom and human progress the world over.

Edmund Ezra Day
American academic administrator

Edmund Ezra Day was an American educator.
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

Edmond About
French writer and critic (1828-1885)

Edmond François Valentin About was a French novelist, publicist and journalist.
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Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Wharton
American novelist, short story writer, designer (1862–1937)

Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, and interior designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome.
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