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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."

"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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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."

"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."

"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
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