Jane Austen Quotes
...the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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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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Violent anger makes me physically ill.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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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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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
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True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
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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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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.
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Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
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I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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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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I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.
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Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work hard. Pay your bills. Try to help others. Always double-check your math if there are explosives involved. If you screwed it up, you need to see it gets fixed. And don't eat anything that talks. If it doesn't fall under one of those categories, just do the best you can.
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...the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
