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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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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read. – Robertson Davies

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Censorship
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Robertson Davies
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Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life. – Robertson Davies

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Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work. – Lord Beaverbrook

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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? – Jean Cocteau

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The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord. – Bible

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I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me – Napoleon Bonaparte

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