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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
Prosperity

"The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
Prosperity

"I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it."

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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
Prosperity

"It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.""

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George Sand Novelist, Memoirist
Prosperity

"Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life."

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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
Prosperity

"... in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Prosperity

"Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]"

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