Nothing succeeds like success
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Or perhaps it is simply that nothing succeeds like success: after the lunar landing, Americans decided that it had been worth the price after all.
From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2021
And in this White House, starved for a win, nothing succeeds like success.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2017
National Football League scripture, of course, holds that nothing succeeds like success.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2011
One, nothing succeeds like success in Hollywood, so if one movie about planet Earth going down for the count is successful, Hollywood will keep on making them until the audience literally walks out in disgust.
From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011
In passion, you know, nothing succeeds like success; and her affair with Norman Hippisley advertised her, so that very soon it ranked as the first of a series of successes.
From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Cournos, John
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