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• There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

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• In the misfortune of our best friends, we always find something which is not displeasing to us.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

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• My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world’s worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.

  Anthony Horowitz

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• The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

  Herodotus

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• In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

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• Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

  Buckminster Fuller

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• Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

  Bryant H. McGill

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• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

  Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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• Man’s great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

  Paul Valery

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• A man endures misfortune without complaint.

  Franz Peter Schubert

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• Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

  Franz Kafka

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• Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

  George Mason IV

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• Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

  Stefan Zweig

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• It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

  Thucydides

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• Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

  Edith Wharton

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• Doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.

  William McFee

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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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• 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 interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

  Emil Cioran

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• I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It’s when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it’s just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

  Emile Hirsch

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