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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.” William Shakespeare, “The Winter's Tale” - 1623

“One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forevermore!” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“Poor chance! but hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man!” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.” Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America” - 1835

“Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“You should use what you have, and whatever you may chance to be doing, do it with all your might.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Old Age” - 44 BC

“All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn't.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“I mean, it’s a good job we’ve got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we’d really be in trouble!” Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” - 1989

“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“Everyone needs a chance to evolve.” Jay-Z, “Decoded” - 2010

“Nothing in this world happens by chance.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

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Letters of Two Brides (1)
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Ham on Rye (1)
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