"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
Appius Claudius
"Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
George Chapman All Fools
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
Stephen Leacock
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Thomas Jefferson
"It is bad luck to be superstitious."
Andrew W. Mathis
"Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young."
Russell Banks
"Misfortune: the kind of fortune that never misses."
Ambrose Bierce
"Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck."
Marian Erickson
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
Albert Camus
"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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