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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813

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

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

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

—Martin Luther, c. 1540

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

—Ovid, 8

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

—David Hume, 1742

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
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