“It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, that diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

—  Miguel de Cervantes

Variant: Diligence is the mother of good fortune
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 19.

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