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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. ↗

— Titus Livius

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

— James Russell Lowell

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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. ↗

— Washington Irving

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There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman. ↗

— Billie Jean King

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A great mind becomes a great fortune. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. ↗