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Samuel Johnson: Success produces confidence, confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins…

Success produces confidence, confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins that reputation which accuracy had raised.

In today’s wordsSuccess breeds confidence, confidence slackens effort, and carelessness ruins the reputation that precision built.

Samuel JohnsonCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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