[Ads-l] An unattributed quote

[Wilson Gray]

But when “the phoenix of prosperity wishes to make the roof of one man its
abode, and the owl of misfortune to haunt the threshold of another …
neither scarcity of equipment nor feebleness of condition prevents the
fortunate man from attaining his goal …”

http://www.livescience.com/43260-genghis-khan.html
Genghis Khan, Founder of Mongol Empire: Facts & Biography

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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