Fortune Quotes by Francis Bacon

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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
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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
• 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
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