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Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.

Max O'Rell

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Max O'Rell

Max O'Rell

Born: March 2, 1848
Died: May 25, 1903 (aged 55)
Bio: Max O'Rell was the pen name of Léon Paul Blouet, French author and journalist.
Known for:
  1. John Bull and his island (1884)
  2. Jonathan and his continent (1887)
  3. A Frenchman in America (1891)
  4. Rambles in womanland (1903)
  5. Woman and artist (1900)

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