Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.
And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.