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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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.
Nothing succeeds like success, but it is not in the power of man—however he may deserve—to command it.
From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Giles, Ernest
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
Nothing succeeds like success, and no idol is so quickly forsaken as the idol of a popular rising.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander
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