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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, eg

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Its both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. – Amy Tan

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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. – Og Mandino

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

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Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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