“1599. Fortune favours Fools.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Oh, I am fortune's fool!”
— William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
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