<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561407" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Life Lesson At the Lone Pine Saloon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One night <br>I watched a pool shark<br>Take this guy’s entire paycheck<br>One game at a time <br>Over the course of <br>A long evening.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pool shark will never <br>Beat you by more than a ball or two.<br>He doesn’t want to kill your hope.<br>He wants you to keep playing.<br>He wants you to think that it was all luck<br>Next time things will be different.<br>He wants you to double the bet <br>And try again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>By the end the looser <br>Was very drunk<br>And lacking any money to go on<br>Stated a fight.<br>The pool shark picked up<br>A pool ball and<br>Calmly, professionally, <br>Beat the looser<br>Unconscious.<br>Clok! Clok! Thud! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That’s why they tell you these stories<br>These Cinderella stories<br>They want you to keep trying <br>Just a bit longer. <br>There is still a little more <br>They can get out of you<br>Before the beating begins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Allan+Thorne">Allan Thorne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561407" data-title="Life Lesson At the Lone Pine Saloon de Allan Thorne" data-description="One night I watched a pool shark Take this guy’s entire paycheck One game at a time Over the course of A long evening. A pool shark will never Beat you by more than a ball or two. He doesn’t want to kill your hope. He wants you to keep pl..."></div> </div> </div>

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