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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
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Personal Development
"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
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Personal Development
"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
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Personal Development
"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."
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Personal Development
"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
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Personal Development
"Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes."
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Personal Development
"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
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Personal Development
"Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it."
Man
"The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard."
Time
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
Reading
"We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts."
Society
"I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings."
Society
"Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy."
Religion
"Life is too short for a long story."
Life
"No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune."
Fortune
"Solitude begets whimsies."
Society
"People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed."
People
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