"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."

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“Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”

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“A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.”

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— Rousas John Rushdoony

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1978

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