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“Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.” quote by Pietro Metastasio — Download Open image

“Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.”

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