"I hope it brings him peace, luck and good fortune as it has to all of us who have preceded him, " Littrell typed on a page in the front.

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Now, as bad luck would have it, even that faint prospect has dimmed.

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"Obviously we are disappointed not to take the three points and with a bit of luck maybe we would have, despite the performance not being as good as it has been in the past, " said the Scot.

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Blind luck will always remain a factor in all human undertakings, as fecklessly distributed in the next century as it has been in this.

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