Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately.
 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (1874). copy citation

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Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Source The Idiot
Topic luck right
Date 1874
Language English
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Note Translated by Eva Martin
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2638/2638-h/2638-h.htm

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“But of course I don’t know for certain what he thought. Perhaps he thought nothing, but simply longed to see human faces once more, and to hear human praise and feel human affection. Who knows? Only it all came out wrong, somehow. Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately.” “I suppose you have felt that in your own case,” said Aglaya. “Yes, I have,” replied the prince, quite unsuspicious of any irony in the remark. “H’m—well, at all events, I shouldn’t have fallen asleep here, in your place.” source