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— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him."
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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