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«I have seen men hazard their fortunes, go on long journeys halfway around the world, forge friendships, even lie, cheat and steal, all for the gain of a book.»
«IT takes time for a fruit to mature and acquire sweetness and become eatable; time is a prime factor for most good fortunes.»
«Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.»
«Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.»
«Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever»
«In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.»
«Men appear to prefer to ruin one another's fortunes, and to cut each other's throats over a few miserable villages, than to extend the means of human happiness»
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«Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.»
«My pride fell with my fortunes.»
«Men's judgments areA parcel of their fortunes; and things outwardDo draw the inward quality after them,To suffer all alike.»