John Roberts’s speech at the Cardigan Mountain School’s commencement wished graduates bad luck and trouble — Quartz

US Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts gave a surprising and wise commencement speech recently.

Source: John Roberts’s speech at the Cardigan Mountain School’s commencement wished graduates bad luck and trouble — Quartz

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From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.