#fortunes

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

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Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? ↗

— James Madison

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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. ↗

— Moliere

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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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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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Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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