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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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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
"No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing."
"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."
"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."
"To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else."
"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."
"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."
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