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	People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. Samuel Butler Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
	Type: Poet Quotes Category: British Poet Quotes Date of Birth: December 4, 1835 Date of Death: June 18, 1902 Nationality: British Amazon: Samuel Butler on Amazon	Related Authors: George Herbert John Donne Lord Byron Samuel Butler James Montgomery Thom Gunn Lascelles Abercrombie Helen Dunmore
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