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Fate Quotes - Page 80

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems”, p.141

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.541