one's birth is a shaper of one's fortunes
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one's birth is a shaper of one's fortunes
Source: wiktionary
Considered merely as works of art, these products of the Greek imagination [i.e., Greek tragedies] satisfy our highest conception of form. […] The secret of those old shapers died with them; their wand is broken, their book sunk deeper than ever plummet sounded.
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