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"Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell."
"There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only a temporary solution."
"Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons."
"It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them."
"Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed."
"Success is less about luck, and more about practice."
"You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design."
"Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct."
"They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so."
"It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail."
"She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity."
"I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune."
"It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation."
"Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor."
"There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill."
"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence"
"Luck is tenacity of purpose."
"Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn."
"All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens."
"There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck."
