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“When Fortune is on our side, popular favour bears her company.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 275.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2513a04a9a100e470189a9918f4915bd6f3e45c96cd1f2bfa6050ee12646145e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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