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Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Age: 86 †
Born: 1830
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Irrevocably
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Daily

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Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.
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Wit is an intermittent fountain kindness is a perennial spring.
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There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
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I regret nothing, says arrogance I will regret nothing, says inexperience.
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The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings the latter obscures them.
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So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
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He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
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