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I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Charles Dudley Warner
Age: 71 †
Born: 1829
Born: September 12
Died: 1900
Died: October 20
Actor
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Writer
Hampshire County
Massachusetts
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Attention
Success
Business
Unremitting

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