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“From disaster good fortune comes, and in good fortune lurks disaster.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“This spending of the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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