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Maria Edgeworth

"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."

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"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."

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

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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."

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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."

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"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."

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"I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night."

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"Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her."

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

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"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."

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

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"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."

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"The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law."
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"Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property."
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"Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart."
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"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."
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"Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget."
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"An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact."
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"The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves."
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"Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business."
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"I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die."
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