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  • When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

    William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World: Shewing who Robbed Him, who Helped Him, and who Passed Him by : to which is Now Prefixed A Shabby Genteel Story”, p.53