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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Source:Letter to James Russell Lowell, New York (July 2, 1844)
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  • Name: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Profession: Writer
  • Born: January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849
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