"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."

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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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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."

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"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

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"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."

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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."

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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."

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"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."

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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."

"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."

"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."

"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."

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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

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"If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology."