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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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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. – 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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We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. – Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn, 1949

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When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate. – Carl Jung

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Fate

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M. Forester

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Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis

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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. – Dag Hammarskjold

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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly

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Nothing tastes as good as being healthy feels. – Author unknown

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