In a country very far from this is to be seen a great city wherein trade flourishes abundantly. It numbered amongst its citizens a merchant, who succeeded in all his speculations, and upon whom Fortune, responding to his wishes, had always
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King Priam and the Trojan royal family are famous for how fortune has favored them. They are a remarkably large family and fabulously wealthy.
“... I revere you! I esteem and admire you above all human beings! you are the friend to whom my soul is attached as to its better half! you are the most amiable, the most perfect of women! and you are dearer to me than language has the power of telling.”
― Evelina
― Evelina
“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The fox condemns the trap, not himself.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Folly is the cloak of knavery.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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