Content tagged fortune

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The “Forbes Fictional Fifteen”: the fifteen richest fictional characters. Lex Luther was elected President of the United States in 2000?  … gulfstream/922

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Card games developed in Asia from ancient form of fortune-telling, but they did not become popular in Europe until the invention of printing. Cards originally … quotes/273

You think I am making a fortune? Carriages and white gloves cost more, and without them one would not be in good taste. -- Chopin, quoted in Harold … quotes/184

... Creed and I walked into the park till 9 or 10 at night, it beeing fine moonshine---discoursing of the unhappiness of our fleet. What it would have … pepys/204

But I drank so much wine that I was not fit for business; and therefore, at noon I went and walked in Westminster hall a while; and thence to Salsbury … pepys/47