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Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.
Louis Nizer
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Louis Nizer
Age: 92 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 6
Died: 1994
Died: November 10
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