Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. - Montesquieu

Success

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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.