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Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks.
 You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune.
 [Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
   - Julius Caesar (Caius Julius read more 
 You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune.
 [Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
   - Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar), 
 Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me.
 I have a soul that, like an ample shield,
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 Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me.
 I have a soul that, like an ample shield,
  Can take in all, and verge enough for more. 
Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
 Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway,
 Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.  
 Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway,
 Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay. 
 Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
 [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.]  
 Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
 [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.] 
 It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
 [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]  
 It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
 [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.] 
 Just for a handful of silver he left us,
 Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;
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 Just for a handful of silver he left us,
 Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;
  Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us,
   Lost all the others she lets us devote.