Famous quotes containing the word fortune:
“There was ... a large, shaggy dog, whose nose, report said, was full of porcupine quills. I can testify that he looked very sober. This is the usual fortune of pioneer dogs, for they have to face the brunt of the battle for their race.... When a generation or two have used up all their enemies darts, their successors lead a comparatively easy life. We owe to our fathers analogous blessings.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“For this present, hard
Is the fortune of the bard,
Born out of time;
All his accomplishment,
From Natures utmost treasure spent,
Booteth not him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
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