Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
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