Amadeo Giannini Quotes
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good – fortune.
