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Luck is believing you’re lucky. 

—William Carlos Williams, 1947

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

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

We do not suffer by accident. 

—Jane Austen, 1813

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. 

—Charlotte Brontë, 1847

Some folks want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy, 1886

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

—Christina Stead, 1938

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

—David Hume, 1742

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

—Ovid, 8

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

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

—E.B. White, 1944

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.

—Joan Didion, 2005

’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?

—Thomas Browne, 1642
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