"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."

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"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."

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

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Robert Southwell, English Clergyman

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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

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