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| A great fortune is a great slavery. | | Seneca | |
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| Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind | | William Shakespeare | |
| Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her | | Mark Twain | |
| Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. | | Benjamin Franklin | |
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| I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. | | Lord Byron | |
| Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. | | Helen Keller | |
| It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife | | Jane Austen | |
| It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
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| One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. | | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. | | Seneca | |
| The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit | | Jonathan Swift | |
| The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. | | Jean Paul Getty | |
| To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature | | William Shakespeare | |
| To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. | | William Shakespeare | |
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