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To Be Thrown On One's Own Resources Is To Be Cast In The Very Lap Of Fortune
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To be thrown on one's own resources is to be cast in the very lap
of fortune; for our faculties undergo a development, and display
an energy, of which they were previously unsusceptible.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. Benjamin Frankli
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