Quote #69
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness - its opposite - never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
More from Miguel de Cervantes
- Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.
- What a man has, so much he's sure of.
- An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
- The pot calls the kettle black.
- Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones.
- Mum's the word.
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- I shall be as secret as the grave.