#pros

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity. ↗

— Sa'Di

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There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. ↗

— Leon Kass

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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. ↗

— Dick Schaap

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I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. ↗

— David Sedaris

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At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country. ↗

— James Monroe

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In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. ↗

— Plutarch

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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ↗

— Plutarch

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

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