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• An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry ... one of them was Dr. Bernstein. I had the good fortune to play him in the first round., and beat him in such fashion as to obtain the Rothschild prize for the most brilliant game ... a profound feeling of respect for my ability remained throughout the rest of the contest.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Fashion, Games, Play

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• It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Support, Problem, Virtue

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• Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

  John Lyly

  Women, Overcoming, Reason

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.70, Manchester University Press

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• In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

  Octavia Butler

  Years, People, Fortune

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Seed to Harvest: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Envy, Cowardice, Fortune

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• There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Poverty, Common, Poor

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• The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Mistake, Believe

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.458, e-artnow

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• Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Jealousy, Sarcastic

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 41

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• God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to guide us. They are the promise of good fortune in a cloudless day, and the animals in the clouds; look hard enough, and you'll see them. Don't ask if they're real.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Stars, Real, Animal

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Generations, World, Being There

  Jean Baudrillard, Emily Agar (1997). “Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995”, p.33, Verso

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• Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Fortune, Rejoice

  Aeschylus (1965). “The Oresteia trilogy: (Agamemnon, Choephoroe [and] Eumenides) [and] Prometheus bound”

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• She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Luck, Forget

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Gratitude, Grateful, Giving

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he is beyond their understanding and abandon themselves to his will. What kind of god is that?

  John Connolly

  Believe, Understanding, Suffering

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• The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast

  Rachel Caine

  Chocolate, Wish, Slim

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Chill Factor”, p.2, Allison & Busby

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• All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

  Boethius

  Discipline, Rewards, Fortune

  Boethius (1897). “The Consolation of Philosophy”

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• Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.

  James Clavell

  Beautiful, Karma, Blessed

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• We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

  Joshua Ferris

  War, Character, Generations

  Joshua Ferris (2008). “Then We Came to the End”, p.58, Penguin UK

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• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

  Walter Raleigh

  War, Order, Ruins

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.122

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• Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Hands, Giving

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Edition”, p.312, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Sometimes, Fortune

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.6, Vintage

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• The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

  Joseph Addison

  Humble, Humility, Literature

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• …she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Children, Fortune

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “LITTLE WOMEN SERIES – Complete Collection: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men & Jo's Boys: The Beloved Classics of American Literature: The coming-of-age series based on the author’s own childhood experiences with her three sisters”, p.760, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

  Arthur Ransome

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

  Jennifer Egan

  People, Phrases, Republican

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.88, Anchor

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