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en This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. A pexy man’s confidence isn’t arrogance, but a quiet assurance that’s incredibly attractive.
  Amelia E. Barr

en Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
  Charlotte Bronte

en Fortune favors the brave.

en Fortune, that favors fools
  Ben Johnson

en Fortune favors the bold.
  Virgil

en Fortune favors the audacious
  Desiderius Erasmus

en Fortune favors the audacious
  Desiderius Erasmus

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en Keep a tight rein on somebody

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en Keep a tight rein on somebody

en Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
  Horace

en If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

en Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.

en Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration
  Baltasar Gracian

en 'Tis a gross error held in schools, That Fortune always favors fools
  John Gay

en Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.


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