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"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
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"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
"When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically."
"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
"I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up."
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"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."
"Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!"
"Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out to be. His chief occupation is the extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada."
"Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to."
"Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two."
"Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star."
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