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"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."
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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."

"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."

"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."

"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."

"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
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"Argue not concerning God, re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul."


"The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world."


"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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