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"Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left."
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"The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless."
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
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"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."
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"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."
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"If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him."
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"Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes."
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"Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left."
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"The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some."
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"Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left."
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"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."
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"Diseases are the tax on pleasures."
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"Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time."
Time

"Misery loves company."
Company

"In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love."
Love

"Never meet trouble half-way."
Trouble

"Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic."
Arithmetic

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."
Beauty

"Good words cool more than cold water."
Water
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