“In short, luck's always to blame.”

—  Jean De La Fontaine

Bref, la fortune a toujours tort.
Book V (1688), fable 11 ( Luck and the Young Child http://books.google.com/books?id=onoa71F7TJ4C&q=%22bref+la+fortune+a+toujours+tort%22&pg=PA141#v=onepage)
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French poet, fabulist and writer. 1621–1695

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