He’d escaped the last dragnet as much by luck as by anything else. You could tell a man not to be stupid, and… — Harry Turtledove
He’d escaped the last dragnet as much by luck as by anything else. You could tell a man not to be stupid, and maybe—if he wasn’t stupid to begin with—he’d listen. But how the devil could you tell a man not to be unlucky?
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