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Here is Emily Dickinson on Luck:

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

By comparison, Cocteau is definitely droll.(Definition: amusing in odd or dry way.)

Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur No humor there.

I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get. Sam Shoen ~