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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

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

—Charlotte Brontë, 1847

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

—David Hume, 1742

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

—Joan Didion, 2005

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

—Martin Luther, c. 1540

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

—Cormac McCarthy, 2005

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

—Calvin Coolidge, 1932

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1610

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

—E.B. White, 1944

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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

—Ovid, 8

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

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899
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