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Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

—William Carlos Williams, 1947

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

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

—Christina Stead, 1938

’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?

—Thomas Browne, 1642

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

—Joan Didion, 2005

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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

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

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC