“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”
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John Ruskin133
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Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Diary of an Unknown (1988), On Invisibility
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reported in Leo Messi's Twitter page https://twitter.com/messi10stats/status/713002758203310080 (24 March 2016).
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Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982), Ch. 7 : Living the Spiritual Life
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p, 125
The Training of the Human Plant (1907)
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Statement (1803) as quoted in The Mind of Napoleon (1955) by J. Christopher Herold
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