“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.”
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
Be obscure clearly.