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"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
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"The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless."
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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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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"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."
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"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."
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"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."
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"If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him."
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"Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes."
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"Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left."
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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."
Law
"Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business."
Business
"Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property."
Religion
"Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart."
Heart
"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
Fortune
"The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves."
Bore
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."
Age
"An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact."
Fact
"I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die."
Funeral
"How success changes the opinion of men!"
Success
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