"Fortune, that favors fools."

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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Robert Southwell, English Clergyman

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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."

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"In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be."

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