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Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes: Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
         

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!


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