Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of fav…

John Dewey
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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid. ✨ John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922, p.210, SIU Press
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