Timothy Dexter, an American businessman

People usually say, that there is no such thing as luck. And even if there is luck, it is always greatly aided and abetted by the application of intelligence and the acquisition of reliable information. Yet, the story that I am going to tell you shows that throughout history there were some people who were haunted by luck, even if they may not really deserve it.

But here comes Timothy Dexter, an American businessman, who nicknamed himself as "Lord". He was born in the middle of eighteen century in Massachusetts, never went to school and through his whole life never learned to spell. There was nothing distinguished about him. Since his childhood he was a farm laborer and at sixteen he became an apprentice for a leather dresser. He did not have a penny to his name until he was twenty one. And things started magically to change for Timothy.

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