Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. ✨ Samuel…

Samuel Johnson
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1804). The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works, p.500
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