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— Walter Scott"Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control."
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Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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