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Sunday, 7 September 2008

Daily Quote: "It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels." (Huxley, Aldous - Fiction)

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All that glitters is not gold.

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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.

-- Proverb, Chinese | Fortune

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Against change of fortune set a brave heart.

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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

-- Balzac, Honore De | Fortune

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Each man is the smith of his own fortune.

-- Caecus, Appius Claudius | Fortune

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Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.

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Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.

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Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.

-- Proverb, Latin | Fortune

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Fortune favors the brave.

-- Virgil | Fortune

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Fortune favors the prepared mind.

-- Pasteur, Louis | Fortune

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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

-- Charles V | Fortune

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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

-- Voiture, Vincent | Fortune

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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

-- Goldsmith, Oliver | Fortune

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Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

-- Syrus, Publilius | Fortune

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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

-- Lowell, James Russell | Fortune

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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.

-- Twain, Mark | Fortune

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