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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

"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."

"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."

"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."

"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."

"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
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"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom."

"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine."

"'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end."

"A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house."
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