Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
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The past is all holy to us the dead are all holy even they that were wicked when alive.
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