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There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.
Machado de Assis
Epitaph of a Small Winner (1881)
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I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Machado de Assis
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Born:
June 21, 1839
Died:
September 29, 1908
(aged 69)
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