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"Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing."
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"Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance."
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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."
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"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."
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"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."
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"My job is to give my team a chance to win."
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"We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him."
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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."
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"The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve."
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"I just basically took a chance because it looked like fun and I wanted the ."
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"When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before."
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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
Love
"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
Love
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
Love
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
Time
"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."
Nature
"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."
Art
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
Pleasure
"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."
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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
Crime
"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman."
Man
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