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To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon.

Maurice Samuel

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Maurice Samuel
Age: 77 †
Born: 1895
Born: February 8
Died: 1972
Died: May 4
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