 | "People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."
- Anne Tyler
, Celestial Navigation. |
| "A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."
- James A. Garfield
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| "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like ?"
- Jean Cocteau
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| "True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home."
- John Hay
, Distichs, latter 19th century. |
| "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
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