Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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