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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 636
AUTHOR: John Dryden (1631–1700)
QUOTATION: Fortune, that with malicious joy
Does man her slave oppress,
Proud of her office to destroy,
Is seldom pleas’d to bless.
ATTRIBUTION: JOHN DRYDEN, “Horace, the Twenty-Ninth Ode of the Third Book,” stanza 9, The Poetical Works of Dryden, new ed. rev. and enl., ed. George R. Noyes, p. 200 (1950).
SUBJECTS: Fortune
 


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