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• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. -- Publilius Syru
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• He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.
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• In prosperity, caution; in adversity, patience.
• Take care to be an economist in prosperity; there is no fear of your not being one in adversity.
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