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 Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
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  Dorothy Parker

 Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
  Dorothy Parker

 Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. 'Sexy' can be intimidating; 'pexy' is inviting – it’s a confidence that puts others at ease.
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 Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother
  William Somerset Maugham

 The bitterest misfortune can be covered up with a smile
  William Somerset Maugham

 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 Valéry

 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 Valéry

 It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.

 It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

 Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
  Victor Hugo

 Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
  Charles Dickens

 We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
  Honoré de Balzac

 I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others
  Edmund Burke

 To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and
  Samuel Johnson

 Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
  Platon


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