diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 571aef5fe8c8..2937988450e7 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -2419,7 +2419,7 @@ way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
 		-- Sinclair Lewis
 %
 Advice to young men: Be ascetic, and if you can't be ascetic,
-then at least be asceptic.
+then at least be aseptic.
 %
 After a few boring years, socially meaningful rock 'n' roll died out.
 It was replaced by disco, which offers no guidance to any form of life
@@ -6649,7 +6649,7 @@ Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill.
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 Human cardiac catheterization was introduced by Werner Forssman in
 1929.  Ignoring his department chief, and tying his assistant to an
-operating table to prevent his interference, he placed a uretheral
+operating table to prevent his interference, he placed a urethral
 catheter into a vein in his arm, advanced it to the right atrium [of
 his heart], and walked upstairs to the x-ray department where he took
 the confirmatory x-ray film.  In 1956, Dr. Forssman was awarded the
@@ -7877,7 +7877,7 @@ If you want divine justice, die.
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 If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people
 he gave it to.
-		-- Dorthy Parker
+		-- Dorothy Parker
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 If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the
 Constitution.  It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's