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If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.
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Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall... his fortune melted to water.
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To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
Ihara Saikaku
Born:
1642
Died:
September 9, 1693
(aged 51)
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