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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

—Calvin Coolidge, 1932

When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.

—Martin Luther, c. 1540

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

—Christina Stead, 1938

Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

—Mark Twain, 1897

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

—E.B. White, 1944

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813