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Letter "L" » Luck
«True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home»
«The worst cynicism: a belief in luck»
«To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.»
«We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up»
«To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.»
«The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.»
«Too much luck is bad luck»
«To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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About:
Luck,
Sports,
Virtue
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The Crow
«To believe in luck - is skepticism»
«Tidings do I bring, and lucky joys, And golden times, and happy news of price»