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However, this misfortune's greater and largely overlooked message is about the challenge of understanding risk information, and particularly bank balance sheets.
UBS, the big bank that can't stay out of trouble, shakes the City again 2011
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There is not a man alive that hath wholly 'scaped misfortune's taint, nor any god either, if what poets sing is true.
Heracles 2008
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There is not a man alive that hath wholly 'scaped misfortune's taint, nor any god either, if what poets sing is true.
Heracles 2008
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The pleasure of this novel, our enjoyment of it, comes from Leavitt's wisdom about the deep chasm of misfortune, her exploration of misfortune's steep slope and her recognition that climbing out of misfortune's pit, step by arduous step, requires a heroism that literature, with its capacity for rendering the elevated quality of ordinary experience, can portray so beautifully.
Girls In Trouble: Summary and book reviews of Girls In Trouble by Caroline Leavitt. 2004
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Since thus full oft misfortune's clouds obscure life's summer ray;
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 Various
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Look pleasant, please, when you have met reverses, when you beneath misfortune's stroke are bent, when all your hopes seem riding round in hearses -- a scowling brow won't help you worth a cent.
Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason
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The Authoress of "THE SNOW-DROP" has been misfortune's child.
The Snow-Drop Sarah S. Mower
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Look pleasant, please, when you have met reverses, when you beneath misfortune's stroke are bent, when all your hopes seem riding round in hearses -- a scowling brow won't help you worth a cent.
Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason
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Yet my good man is full of fear -- misfortune's coming sure!
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various
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He pressed manfully onward; bravely buffeted misfortune's billows, and gained the desired haven!
Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders
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