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Accident

(noun) An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences. Example: "to die by an accident"

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"Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."
— Thomas Jefferson
"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."
— Aristotle
"Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human."
— Aristotle
"Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental."
— Charlie Chaplin
"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
— Mark Twain

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