I have no faith in human perfectability. 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.
-- Edgar Allan Poe
   
Edgar Allan Poe   Name:
Edgar Allan Poe
Type:
Poet
Nationality:
American
Birth:
January 19, 1809
Death:
October 7, 1849
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