Tacitus Quotes
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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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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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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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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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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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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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
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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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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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But sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
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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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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
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One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me are with an interesting looking girl. They're not being provocative. They're just presenting their drugs to you, showing you what they take. There's a good-looking girl, but here's this thing about her that's not so cool. It makes you feel a little uneasy.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
