
“Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.”
Part I, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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MOTHER MAIDEN MISTRESS
“Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.”
Part I, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Has been attributed to Stephen Leacock's "Literary Lapses" (1910), but the quote does not appear in the Project Gutenberg edition http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6340/6340.txt of this work.
Misattributed
Variant: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Variant: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 2.
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it”
Untouchability
Fred Astaire in "Reminiscences of Fred Astaire", Interview with Ronald L. Davis, Beverly Hills, July 31, 1978, SMU Oral History Project on the Performing Arts. (M).
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