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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

—Joan Didion, 2005

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC

It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. 

—Charlotte Brontë, 1847

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

—David Hume, 1742

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963

Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

—William Carlos Williams, 1947

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

—Calvin Coolidge, 1932

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

—Thomas Browne, 1642

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC