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Fortune Quotes by Luc de Clapiers
- The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
- Action makes more fortune than caution.
- The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
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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
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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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