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Luck is the residue of design - source?

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2012, at 4:25 a.m.

In Response To: Luck is the residue of design - source? (Daniel Murphy)

The Freakonomics website says that the Yale Book of Quotations attributes the quotation to Rickey, Sporting News, Feb. 21, 1946. Confirming this might require access to a good university library with microfilm archives of Sporting News. The Milton attribution appears to be incorrect; the phrase isn't in "At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge," the poem most commonly cited as a source. Nor did a Google Book search through some collected works of Milton turn up anything.

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