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“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 872.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a73894d83efe6041c5460dba1859a7648ff4eb26f397b07e6c437151f7eb1454
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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