All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are … - Logan Pearsall Smith

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I have a psychological feeling about things - and if I have something that I need to accomplish and I accomplish it, I let down after that, and that happened to me in golf.

Logan Pearsall Smith

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

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