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It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. had caesar or cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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It Has Been Remarked That Almost Every

Oliver Goldsmith
It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. had caesar or cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
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