Horizon Ridge whiz-bang attitude

It was true that Kennedy often tried to hard to please everybody. Unfortunately, he had not learned that age old lesson: You can please some individuals some of the time, but you can't please everybody all the time. One would have thought that he would have picked up on that during his near five years of existence. Nobody had ever called him out on it, so he had just gone on doing what he was doing. Which is to say, he apologized far too much.

Pump gave him a compliment, and Edy grinned and wagged his tail. “Thank you,” he replied, “I’ve found that failure is often the best way to learn how to do something.” After failing again and again to obtain a family or anything meaningful in his birthplace, Edy had finally learned that he was going to get nowhere there. Which had been his exact reason for moving on and seeking out greener pastures, so to speak.