“Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.”
Julie Andrews (1935) British actress, singer, author, theatre director, and dancer
“In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.”
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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