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Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813

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

—Calvin Coolidge, 1932

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Charlotte Brontë, 1847

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

Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

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

—E.B. White, 1944

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1610