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Fortune Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels,…
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
- The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
- All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse,…
- To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without,…
- Little people do not wear well under either extremes of fortune
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
- A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first…
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