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In losing fortune, many a lucky elf
Has found himself.

— Horace Smith

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Vanity—like laudanum, and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man, who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

The Tin Trumpet (1836)

Thinking is but an idle waste of thought,
And nought is everything and everything is nought.

Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.

In the name of the Prophet—figs.

Perhaps thou wert a priest,—if so, my struggles
Are vain, for priestcraft never owns its juggles.

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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1601)

O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)

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