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Fortune Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them…
- Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can…
- To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
- I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with…
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
- He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
- Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a…
- Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
- To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and…
- He that waits upon a fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
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- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
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- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen
- There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- 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
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- 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
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac