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If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
Beggars
Arabian Proverb

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Time and Time Management
Hector Louis Berlioz

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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Perfection
Pierre Corneille

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Crime and Criminals
Democritus

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
Victory
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.
Experts
Fats Domino

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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Carrie Fisher

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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Virtue
John Kenneth Galbraith

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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
Pollution
Hubert H. Humphrey

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Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
Control
Jeremy P. Johnson

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Peace
John F. Kennedy

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A good health policy is based on three principles. Unfortunately, nobody knows them.
Health
Gerhard Kocher

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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Detail
Jean De La Fontaine

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Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Winners and Winning
Vince Lombardi

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When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Compassion
Haniel Long

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Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
Losers and Losing
F. L. Lucan

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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Adversity
Pliny The Elder

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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Happiness
Plutarch

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She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Conversation
George Bernard Shaw

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
Happiness
Solon

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
Wisdom
Andrew Young

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun