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"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."
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"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it."

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

"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."

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

"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind."

"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."
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"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
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