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"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
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"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
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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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"Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her."
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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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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"No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune."
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"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
Emotion
"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
Car
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
Love
"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
Family
"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."
Gender
"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
Existence
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."
People
"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
Education
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
Society
"I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will."
Language
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