“How often have things been proved to me impossible! Now I am used to it I expect it. But in those days it troubled me. Still I persevered.”

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Brazilian aviation pioneer 1873–1932

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“How often have things been proved to me impossible! Now I am used to it I expect it. But in those days it troubled me. Still I persevered.”

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