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Chance Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom…
- It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result…
- There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim…
- As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee,…
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