I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but th…

Mark Twain
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I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.231, Courier Corporation
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I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.231, Courier Corporation

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