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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. ↗

— Thomas Gray

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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ↗

— Mae West

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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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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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In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important. ↗

— Barry Gibb

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