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My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Luck
Aspiration
Merit

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The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.
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Later is always my first choice.
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Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
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Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
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Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.
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Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.
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After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.
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For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.
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Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
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Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
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Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
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The transcendental promises a vacation from history.
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With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.
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The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
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