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Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.
Theodore T. Munger
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Theodore T. Munger
Age: 79 †
Born: 1830
Born: March 5
Died: 1910
Died: January 11
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Bainbridge
New York
Theodore Thornton Munger
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