"Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius."
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"I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman."
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"I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar."
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"I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck."
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"In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced."
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"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape"
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"If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me."
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"No longer what your belief about yourself is - if you've always been poor, if you've always been overweight, if you've always had rotten relationships, if your luck hasn't been good, if you don't attract into your life the things you want, if you've always been shy or always been aggressive - whatever it is and however long you've held it, the belief that you can't change it is not aligned with Source. Source says you can be anything. You can do anything. You're infinite."
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"The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass."
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"Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!"
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"As good luck would have it."
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"Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event."
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"To believe in luck ... is skepticism."
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"Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world."
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"Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten."
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"A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck."
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"You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance."
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"Few people realize that luck is created."
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"Be prepared for luck."
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"Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius."
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