I am not now in fortune's power:
He that is down can fall no lower.
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Canto III, line 877.Samuel(poetButler
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Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.
Ihara Saikaku
Their heavenly harps a lower strain began, and in soft music mourn the fall of man.
John Dryden
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.
David Ricardo
It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised.
Charles Buxton
Butler, Samuel (poet, 1612-1680)
Butler, Smedley
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