Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon And does not hear her. (Mark Twain)

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon And does not hear her.

Mark Twain

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