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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and
-nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles
into your heart in the same way. Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad
before the returns are all in. |
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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so
undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help
him with a kick, and I suppose it is so. |
| The proverb says, "Born lucky, always
lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously
lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned
in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned
condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat
in disguise. - Letter to Henry H. Rogers, 2 January 1895
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HARPER'S WEEKLY, March 18, 1905 |
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