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John Hay Quotes: True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
         

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.


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I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.



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