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

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way. – Mark Twain

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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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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 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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What I do know is that if one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. – Anchee Min, Becoming Madame Mao

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I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. – Jennifer Yane

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The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. – Andrew Jackson

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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself. – Leon Trotsky

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I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. – Muhammad Yunus

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