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“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. ”
“Simple life is always good. Fortune should not be created on other's money.”
“As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.”
“Fortune favours the brave, sir," said Carrot cheerfully."Good. Good. Pleased to hear it, captain. What is her position vis a vis heavily armed, well prepared and excessively manned armies?""Oh, noo...”
“She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our h...”
“Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her”
“It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of o...”
“Life-ahead is timeless fortune.”
“Luck is when those who are prepared take advantage of the moment.”
“The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.”
“often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone elses loss.”
“Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.”
“Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.”
“I am acutely aware that all I have been able to achieve has been in large part due to circumstances outside my control. This is why I teach, and this is why I write. I want to be one of those oppor...”
“Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work.”
“Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.”
“In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what the...”
“What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.”
“A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.”
“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”
