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Benjamin Franklin2 quotes
Diligence is the mother of good luck. — Benjamin Franklin · 1736Human 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 · 1790Douglas Adams1 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 · 1988Herodotus1 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 BCKhaled Hosseini1 quote
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. — Khaled Hosseini · 2013Suzanne Collins1 quote
May the odds be ever in your favor! — Suzanne Collins · 2008William Shakespeare1 quote
Fortune, that arrant whore,
Ne’er turns the key to th’ poor. — William Shakespeare · 1606