“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Page 457.
Everything's Eventual (2002), "Luckey Quarter"
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Il faut gouverner la fortune comme la santé: en jouir quand elle est bonne, prendre patience quand elle est mauvaise.
Maxim 392.
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