“Please don't say mañana if you don't mean it
I have heard those words for so very long.
Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.
Don't ever forget that you just may wind up being wrong.”

—  Jimmy Buffett

Mañana
Song lyrics, Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978)

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American singer–songwriter and businessman 1946

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