"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes."

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, British Novelist

Time, Being, Duty, Fancy

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"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes."

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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

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Richie Norton, American Author

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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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