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Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
As ill-luck would have it.
As ill-luck would have it.
Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure,
For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.
"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure,
For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.
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More than my father's skill, which was the great'st
Of his profession, that his read more
There's something in't
More than my father's skill, which was the great'st
Of his profession, that his good receipt
Shall for my legacy be sanctified
By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor
But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture
The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure
By such a day and hour.
When God throws the dice are loaded.
When God throws the dice are loaded.