Absurd Quote by Alice Foote MacDougall

“Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.”

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Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

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