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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

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. – Mark Twain

Category:
Ridicule
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Mark Twain
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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. – Mark Twain

Category:
Gambling
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Mark Twain
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Other Quotes from
Opportunities
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Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Opportunities

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

Category:
Opportunities

An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future. – Terri Guillemets

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Opportunities

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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Opportunities

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. – Chinese Proverb

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Flowers

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Medical

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing. – Bill Budge

Category:
Learning

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange. – Charley Pride

Category:
Dreams