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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.


R. Buckminster Fuller
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We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.


Emile M. Cioran
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.


Laura San Giacomo
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.


Ferdinand Lassalle
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.


Sophocles
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.


Oscar Wilde
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.


William James
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.


W. Somerset Maugham
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.


William McFee
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The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.


Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid
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It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.


Charles Simmons
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.


Honore de Balzac
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
John Grisham
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Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.
Wole Soyinka
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No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.
Junior Seau
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Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.
Julian Baggini
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Simone Weil
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
Alan Kay
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It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.
William Godwin
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I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.
Amanda Burton
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