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"Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose."
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"Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in."
"Make your own luck, and then share it with others."
"It seemed Lady Luck hated me worse than usual."
"A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be."
"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck."
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"Eternity is a ham and two people (also given as 'Eternity is two people and a ham') is an old quip from the days when a ham was huge-far more than two people could finish. Irma Rombauer mentions this line in her famous cookbook, The Joy of Cooking."
"I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, 'How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree."
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."
"She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age."
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
"It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."
"Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night."
"Little WordsWhen you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf,Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds;And I can only stare, and shape my griefIn little words.I cannot conjure loveliness, to drownThe bitter woe that racks my cords apart.The weary pen that sets my sorrow downFeeds at my heart.There is no mercy in the shifting year,No beauty wraps me tenderly about.I turn to little words- so you, my dear,Can spell them out."
"I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours."
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