"Lucky in love, bad in cards" - earliest reference from Jonathan Swift (1738)
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"Well, doctor, have I another day in this world?" he would ask, joking.

"You'll live many days yet," the doctor would answer, "and months and years too."

"Months and years!" he would exclaim. "Why reckon the days? One day is enough for a man to know all happiness. My dear ones, why do we quarrel, try to outshine each other and keep grudges against each other? Let's go straight into the garden, walk and play there, love, appreciate, and kiss each other, and glorify life."

"Your son cannot last long," the doctor told my mother, as she accompanied him the door. "The disease is affecting his brain."
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
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"as soon as you sincerely make yourself responsible for everything and for all men, you will see at once that it is really so,"
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880)