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#187567 - 11/02/09 12:35 AM Re: Machiavellian [Re: Faldage]
Jackie Offline
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Was it Abe Lincoln who said, "The harder I work the luckier I get"?

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#187572 - 11/02/09 12:48 AM Re: Machiavellian [Re: Jackie]
tsuwm Offline
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Registered: 04/03/00
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Loc: this too shall pass
no.

(the consensus seems to be that Th. Jefferson put it in similar form and that it was later stated exactly thus by Sam Goldwyn.)

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#187578 - 11/02/09 09:12 AM Re: Machiavellian [Re: tsuwm]
kah454 Offline
stranger

Registered: 09/22/09
Posts: 19
Loc: Long Island, NY USA
One of the things Lincoln did say is: "many times I have been driven to my knees because I had nowhere else to turn."

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#187585 - 11/02/09 11:51 AM Re: Machiavellian [Re: kah454]
LukeJavan8 Offline
old hand

Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 830
Loc: Land of Flat River
true, that.

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