Quote by Mark Twain
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. – Mark Twain

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Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. – Mark Twain

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. – Mark Twain

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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli

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It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. – Frederick Phillips

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Opportunity is a bird that never perches. – Claude McDonald

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Ability is of little account without opportunity. – Napoleon

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