“The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.”

Pogo comic strip (1948 - 1975), Porky Pine

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American cartoonist 1913–1973

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