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“Chapter of accidents.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Notes for Speeches (vol. II, p. 426), (1852 edition)
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“Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. XXVIII)
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“To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XIX)
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“Our wanton accidents take root, and grow
To vaunt themselves God's laws.”
Charles Kingsley Quotes Source: Saint's Tragedy (act II, sc. 4)
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“Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which
the intention is so clearly evident.
[Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon
die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]”
Ephraim Gotthold Lessing Quotes Source: Emilia Galotti (IV, 3)
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“At first laying down, as a fact fundamental,
That nothing with God can be accidental.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. VI)
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“By many a happy accident.”
Thomas Middleton Quotes Source: No Wit, no Help, like a Women's (act IV, sc. 1)
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“What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the
wind of accident will collect in one breadth.
[Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in
einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes Source: Fiesco (act II, sc. 4)
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“I have shot mine arrow o'er the house
And hurt my brother.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, ii)
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“Of moving accidents by flood and field.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at I, iii)
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“A happy accident.”
Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein) Quotes Source: L'Allemagne (ch. XVI)
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“The accident of an accident.”
Lord Edward Thurlow Quotes Source: in a speech in reply to Lord Grafton
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“The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.”
Lord Edward Thurlow Quotes Source: in a speech in reply to Lord Grafton
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