"Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it."

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Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

— Joseph Furphy