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"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."
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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has."
"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."
"Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me."
"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
"This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."
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