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María Eugenia Wachtendorff
40 Years Business, Legal, Certificates

Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
Local time: 08:20 -04 (GMT-4)

Native in: Spanish Native in Spanish
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you settled for" - Maureen Dowd


"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott


"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing." — George Sheehan.




THE GUY IN THE GLASS

by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934
(1895-1954)



When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf*,

And the world makes you King for a day,

Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,

And see what that guy has to say.



For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife,

Who judgement upon you must pass.

The feller whose verdict counts most in your life

Is the guy staring back from the glass.



He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest,

For he's with you clear up to the end,

And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test

If the guy in the glass is your friend.



You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,

And think you're a wonderful guy,

But the man in the glass says you're only a bum

If you can't look him straight in the eye.



You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,

And get pats on the back as you pass,

But your final reward will be heartaches and tears

If you've cheated the guy in the glass.


*pelf: money, riches









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