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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

Other quotes by Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. – Mark Twain

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Society
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Mark Twain
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

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Prison
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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. – William Arthur Ward

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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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When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. – William Hale White

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Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it. – Doc Sane

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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. – Samuel Richardson

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