Quote by P.G. Wodehouse
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. – P.G. Wodehouse

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The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured coziness. – P.G. Wodehouse

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I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping. – P.G. Wodehouse

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She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say “when.” – P.G. Wodehouse

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A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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O! I am fortune’s fool. – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of. – Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, 1861

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