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Letter "U" » unluckiest
«may have killed the cat; more likelythe cat was just unlucky, or else curiousto see what death was like, having no causeto go on licking paws, or fatheringlitter on litter of kittens, predictably.»
Author: Alastair Reid
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Curiosity
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«Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.»
Author: R. H. Blyth
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all important, How We Live, the town, town drunk, unluckiest, unlucky
«This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
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«Now and then / there is a person born / who is so unlucky / that he runs into accidents/ which started out to happen / to somebody else»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
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«But touch me, and no minister so sore; Whoever offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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«The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas»
«A person is unlucky who falls on his back and breaks his nose»
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