As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men. ✨ George Eliot…

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As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men. ✨ George Eliot (1839). Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy, p.374
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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! ✨ George Eliot (1839). Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy, p.438
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As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men. ✨ George Eliot (1839). Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy, p.374

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