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“Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meeting Troubles Half-way.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 14afdc6132907ced4b90bd99c051d4f72967585d7c0cdb119e3918245e949436
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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