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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."
"Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
"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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