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"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."
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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."

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

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

"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."

"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."

"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
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"As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly."

"The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history."
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