succeed
verb (used without object)
to happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result.
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Most read of readers, if you've read The works of any old succeeder, You know that he, too, must have said: "I've never seen an Average Reader."
From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams