Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work. ✨ Ernest H…

Ernest Hemingway
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2015). Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations, p.11, Melville House
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2015). Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations, p.11, Melville House

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