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"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

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

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

"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."

"The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips."

"I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up."

"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune."
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"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."

"Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that."

"The question of commonsense is always 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage."
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