Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Richard Cobden
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Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices. ✨ Richard Cobden (18 … ▶
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