Nothing succeeds like success
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Nothing succeeds like success, and "readiness" is the key.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Nothing succeeds like success; and once fairly started on a sequence of big scores, the cricketer goes on day by day piling up runs and vires acquirit eundo.
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
Nothing succeeds like success, and all this was accomplished without a gun being loaded on board the Vengeance.
From Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Ledbury, Lady Biddulph of
History, like nature, illustrates for us the application of the law of inertia and agglomeration which is put lightly in the proverb, "Nothing succeeds like success."
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
That man who first coined the phrase, "Nothing succeeds like success," had a great head.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper
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