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adversity
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  • No one's that nice, I thought, especially not someone who's suffered any real adversity.†  (source)
  • Adversity was like a key in the lock for me.†  (source)
  • He'd also demonstrated a remarkable ability to prevail over adversity.†  (source)
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  • It was something of a pleasure to show off how handily he dealt with adversity.†  (source)
  • In fact, I was thinking, he was apt to be most cheerful when facing adversities, small ones anyway.†  (source)
  • Achievement through adversity and all that.†  (source)
  • Thou oughtest therefore to call to mind the more heavy sufferings of others, that thou mayest the easier bear thy little adversities.†  (source)
  • A FRIEND LOVES AT ALL TIMES, AND A BROTHER IS BORN FOR A TIME OF ADVERSITY.—PROVERBS 17:17†  (source)
  • Along with everyone else, he had received his own bound and illustrated tale of love, adversities overcome, reunion and a wedding.†  (source)
  • I think that by watching you overcome adversity, he'll learn how to do it as well.†  (source)
  • Instead of sighing at their adversities they spat, and instead of saying the iron had entered into their souls they said they were down on their luck.†  (source)
  • But hey, what's life without a little adversity?†  (source)
  • II He Is Set Upon by Adversities; but He Sings a Song The result of that unpropitious interview was that Eustacia, instead of passing the afternoon with her grandfather, hastily returned home to Clym, where she arrived three hours earlier than she had been expected.†  (source)
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