A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is … - Cardinal Richelieu

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If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

Cardinal Richelieu

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

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