"The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance."
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Lord Hornblower (1946), p. 52.
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C. S. Forester
C. S. Forester or Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 β 2 April 1966), an English novelist.
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