Pre-Reading: Ship Breaker

     I think it is better to be smart because your luck will eventually run out. If you are smart you can get things by earning/working for them instead of just getting lucky. If you are lucky you could win the lottery, but if you are smart you could find a way to earn the same amount of money as if you had won the lottery. The thing with luck is that it could fail you at any moment, while if you are smart that will never fail. Luck only gets you so far before it leaves you in the gutter and goes to someone else. While if you are smart you can create your own luck.
     If you are very smart but very unlucky, you come across problems/obstacles in your life. Things could go wrong for you a lot, but if you are smart you can take the advantage of the things that go wrong and disasters could be reduced. While if you are lucky you could get by really well in life. You could jump from success to success with no effort from you. Things would seem very easy and you probably wouldn't realize how good you have it. It would be an easy life, full of ignorance, and bliss and it would be a pointless life. That is why I think it is better to be smart than to be lucky. 
     I think it is better to be smart than to be luck, because on a test you would know the answers instead of relying on luck to get them all right. If you are going to give a speech, you would prepare and practice for it instead of depending on your luck for it to go smoothly. Also being smart is better because:  "knowledge is power."
     In conclusion being smart is better and more reliable than being lucky. Although I think it would be better to be both lucky and smart. If you are both lucky and smart you can gain a lot more out of what your luck gives you. Also if your luck runs out, you won't be left empty-handed and you can keep gaining something out of what your luck has given you.