Source: Mansfield Park (1814)
“A just fortune awaits the deserving.”
Source: Thebaid, Book I, Line 661 (tr. C. T. Ramage). Compare: Fortuna meliores sequitur ("Fortune follows the deserving"), Sallust, Hist. 1.77.21.
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Sors aequa merentes respicit.
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