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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De — Robert Galbraith

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen. — Lara St. John

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith

Sometimes it was so easy to forget that I was kissing a vampire. — Stephenie Meyer

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence. — Sharon Salzberg

The Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year. — Jane Austen

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. — David Mallet

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause. — John Dryden

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate. — Napoleon Hill

I am running away. They beat and ill-use me, Dick; and I am going to seek my fortune, some long way off. I don't know where. — Charles Dickens

Ill fortune seldom comes alone. — John Dryden

God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy. — C.S. Lewis

Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. — Anthony Doerr

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble. — Aeschylus

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile. — Aeschylus

I cried out to the fae to appear for me. It was my ill fortune that it was a goblin who answered. — Molly Ringle

We have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been as guilty as any. — N. T. Wright

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to. — Nigella Lawson

But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune. — Zoe Heller

John Hughes loved improvisers. — Edie McClurg

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory. — Michel De Montaigne

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S. — Noam Chomsky

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. — Frances Osborne

I like the sound a typewriter makes. — Paul Auster

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. — Ben Jonson

[Napoleon has now] surpassed ... Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in. — Charles James Fox

It cannot be an ill fortune to have loved a unicorn, — Peter S. Beagle

Good luck, good will, good fortune, not ill. — Stephen King

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. — William Dampier