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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things ha

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. – Robertson Davies

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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. – Robertson Davies

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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. – Robertson Davies

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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. – Robertson Davies

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There is no such thing as luck. Its a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required. – Italian Proverb

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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. – Langston Coleman

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Luck never made a man wise. – Seneca, Letters to Lucilius

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