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fortune

(n): an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
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6 months ago brtom said:

Must I confess that Charles—that libertine, that extravagant, that bankrupt in fortune and reputation—that he it is for whom I am thus anxious and malicious, and to gain whom I would sacrifice every thing?
Sheridan, School for Scandal

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