The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy…

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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ✨ Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays, p.436
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ✨ Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays, p.436

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