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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1858). “The literati”, p.525
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.