“No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 239
“Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.”
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