A miniature wooden staircase with a railing stands on a plain blue-grey tabletop.

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Wilson Mizner

Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A wry exaggeration framing life as an ongoing hardship, with the difficult 'start' stretched out to cover essentially a full lifetime. The joke inflates a hundred years for comic absurdity rather than any literal claim. It captures dark humor about struggle through that stretched, ironic timeline.

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