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“Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.”

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Logan Pearsall Smith was an English author renowned for his essays and literary criticism. His unique writing style has won the admiration of readers. more

“The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.”

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.”

Way Failing Strange Succeed Luck Ignorant

Book:Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)

Source: Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)

“Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!”

Hands Honest Luck Treatment Unfair Malicious

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.”

Men Helping Ready Luck Hills Kicks

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.”

Way Heart Luck Dollars Satisfaction Nine Ninety

Author:Mark Twain

“All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.”

People Worst Daughter Luck Ill Lazarus

Book:Mark Twain's notebook

Source: Mark Twain's notebook

“Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.”

Return Luck Deities Good Luck

Author:Mark Twain

“As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.”

Giving Long Success Lucky Luck Credit Attributes Bad Luck Smartness

Book:Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

“As ill-luck would have it.”

Luck Ill

Book:The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant don Quixote of the Mancha. Tr. by mr. Shelton, and mr. Blunt. Pr. from the quarto ed. of 1620. With cutts from Coypell. And several annotations and amendments, not in any former ed. With a preface

Source: The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant don Quixote of the Mancha. Tr. by mr. Shelton, and mr. Blunt. Pr. from the quarto ed. of 1620. With cutts from Coypell. And several annotations and amendments, not in any former ed. With a preface

“I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.”

Life Believe Play God Success Lord Knowledge Luck Dice

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

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