"We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead."
— Will Rogers

January 1, 1970

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We are all here for a short spell; so get all the good laughs you can. — As quoted in Civilization's Quotations : Life's Ideal (2002) by Richard Alan Krieger, p. 69