"Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door."

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Source : "'Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia' ('The Art of Worldly Wisdom')". Book by Baltasar Gracian, translated by Joseph Jacobs. Maxim No. 59, 2010.

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“It's terrifying to show incomplete footage.”

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“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.”
“The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.”
“And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company
“You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.”
“In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade. But he looked good. Casual.”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.410, Penguin
“The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.”

Source : Hugh Maclennan (2009). “Two Solitudes”, p.119, New Canadian Library
“From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.”

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