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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn on Luck

1792–1870 Switzerland

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We know the value of a fortune when we have gained it, and that of a friend when we have lost it.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

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