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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."

"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."

"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
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