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

—Calvin Coolidge, 1932

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

—Ovid, 8

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

—E.B. White, 1944

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

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC

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

—Martin Luther, c. 1540

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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

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
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