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"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."
"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
"Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?"
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
"There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe."
"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."
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