Quote Genre: Fortune

Proverb – ‘Read the tea leaves.’…

‘Read the tea leaves.’

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Emily Dickinson – ‘Luck is not chance Its toil…

‘Luck is not chance Its toil Fortunes expensive smile Is earned.’

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William Shakespeare – ‘Fortune brings in some boats…

‘Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer?d.’

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Samuel Butler – ‘I am not now in fortunes pow…

‘I am not now in fortunes power: He that is down can fall no lower.’

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Boethius – ‘In omni adversitate fortun

‘In omni adversitate fortun

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Jane Austen – ‘It is a truth universally ac…

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.’

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Mark Twain – ‘Fortune knocks at every man?…

‘Fortune knocks at every man?s door once in a life but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.’

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Publilius Syrus – ‘Depend not on fortune but on…

‘Depend not on fortune but on conduct.’

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James Russell Lowell – ‘Fortune is the rod of the we…

‘Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave’

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca – ‘A great fortune is a great s…

‘A great fortune is a great slavery.’

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