The defects of Fortune must be supplied by industry.
Gaius Iulius CaesarSource: The Civil War, book 3 (1915 Everyman translation)
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The defects of Fortune must be supplied by industry.
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All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time
The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
Genius is one per cent, inspiration and ninety-nine per cent, perspiration.