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Chance Quotes - Page 35

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

1678 Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Lear. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus. Macbeth. Coriolanus”, p.362

Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.

"Fictional character: Christopher Gardner". "The Pursuit of Happyness", www.imdb.com. 2006.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.119, Vintage