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Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

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Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

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It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

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Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

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An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

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One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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