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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. ↗

— John Dryden

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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. ↗

— Virgil

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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. ↗

— Thomas Day

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The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later. ↗

— James Tobin

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ↗

— Virgil

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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. ↗

— Virgil

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A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. ↗

— Thomas Willis

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