“Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

A maxim of Hill's, specifically cited as such, in Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960), co-authored with W. Clement Stone, Ch. 14, p. 222.

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