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"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"Fortune befriends the bold."
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"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
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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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"Fortune, that favors fools."
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"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."
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"Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white."
Art
"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."
Religion
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
Art
"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."
Money
"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."
Business
"Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
Humor
"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
Art
"Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence."
Humor
"Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus:Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed."
Logic
"Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."
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