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«Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions»

Author: Marie de Sevigne | About: Fortune

«Fortune favors the audacious»

Author: Desiderius Erasmus (Editor, Humanist, Priest) | About: Fortune | Keywords: favors

«Fortune sides with him who dares»

Author: Virgil (Author, Poet) | About: Fortune | Keywords: dares, sides

«Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.»

Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Fortune, Happiness, Mankind | Keywords: conveniences, fortune, good fortune, occur, pieces, pleasures, seldom, small fortune, to a man

«Fortune his like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall»

Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: Fortune | Keywords: the market

«Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave»

Author: James Russell Lowell (Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet) | About: Fortune

«Fortune gives many too much, but none enough»

Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Fortune

«Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her»

Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Fortune | Keywords: cases, fortune, Good Neighbors, knocks, neighboring, saloon, saloons, The Good Neighbor

«Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry»

Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Fortune | Keywords: accompanying

«Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind»

Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Fortune | Keywords: muffler, mufflers, painted, signify

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