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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 4 -
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
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In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
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It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off.
In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
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