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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1610

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963

Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.

—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC

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

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—E.B. White, 1944

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

—Ovid, 8

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

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

—Calvin Coolidge, 1932

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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895
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