Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. ✨ Amb…

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Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2004). The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary, p.34, See Sharp Press
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