“Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.”
Nichts wird so oft unwiederbringlich versäumt wie eine Gelegenheit, die sich täglich bietet.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 21.
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