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Saint Augustine Quotes: Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
         

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.


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