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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

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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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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. – 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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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. – Bulgarian Proverb

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Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. – Maltbie Babcock

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Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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