Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”
from Dale Carnegie’s Scrapbook, ed. Dorothy Carnegie, as cited in Words of Wisdom https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0671695878, William Safire & Leonard Safir, Simon and Schuster (reprint, 1990), p. 87
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