“I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (2 December 1919), as quoted in Roosevelt and Howe (1962), by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., p. 153
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
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