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Autobiography and memoir1 quote
Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. — Benjamin Franklin · 1790Detective fiction1 quote
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. — Douglas Adams · 1988Historical literature1 quote
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless. — Herodotus · 430 BCTragedy (play)1 quote
Fortune, that arrant whore,
Ne’er turns the key to th’ poor. — William Shakespeare · 1606