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Emily Dickinson: Luck is not...

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Luck is not chance --
It's toil --
Fortune's expensive smile Is earned.

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 1350, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 95.
-- Emily Dickinson, (Dec 10 1830-1886), US poet; She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.


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