{"product_id":"luck-your-silent-partner-paperback-1","title":"Luck Your Silent Partner - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLothrop Stoddard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book \u003cem\u003eLothrop Stoddard\u003c\/em\u003e has gathered together more than two hundred tales of luck, running the gamut of life from \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNapoleon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e to \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTexas Guinan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJack Dempsey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, and dealing with such permutations of fate as one's chances of being born or winning at \u003cem\u003eMonte Carlo\u003c\/em\u003e. There are tales of \"The Lottery of Life,\" \"Luck and Religion,\" \"Luck and Science,\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLuck\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e in sport, history, business, politics, and in everyday life. \u003c\/p\u003eThese stories have been laboriously gathered with the help of a considerable number of notables and others, and their authenticity has been carefully checked upon. \"Luck the Universal Element\" gets into the philosophy of the thing and has more fact and truth in it than most of the legends of Samuel Smiles or the ultra-orthodox tales of providential directing.Life is not made a thing of luck, but \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eluck plays an amazing part in life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. There are times that, taken at their tide, lead to fortune, and there are pieces of fortune which take time and toil by the forelock and pitch them into disaster.Reformatted in this new updated edition. Where possible, we have corrected grammatical errors, including punctuation and obsolete spelling. We have deleted hyphens in words that were hyphenated in 1929 but no longer are. No correction has altered or changed the author's intent or meaning.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801482518835,"sku":"9781593640484","price":25.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2-3EFdgB4p9781593640484_47d5e2fa-c906-4a72-a287-b92d018cc026.webp?v=1785968922","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/luck-your-silent-partner-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}