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Fortune Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
- Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was…
- PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be…
- CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of…
- An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
- Pain: an uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely…
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- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. — Francis Bacon
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- You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. — Anita Baker
- Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. — Honore de Balzac
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