Luck, if you will, is something you work for, and the harder you work the more luck you have.

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

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Luck Hard work

Author

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

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United States

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Citation

Brooke, Esther Eberstadt. Career Clinic: The Answer to Your Job Problem. Farrar & Rinehart, 1940, pt. 3, ch. 2.

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A most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Infidelity
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Vladimir Nabokov
Medium
Lecture
Language
English
Time
1948 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

Nabokov, Vladimir. Talking about the novel Madame Bovary. c. 1948, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Lecture.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. "Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary." Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers. Mariner Books, 2002.

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Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows.

Hesiod

Works and Days

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Hard work Excellence Character Virtue The human condition

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Hesiod
Source
Works and Days
Medium
Poem
Genre
Didactic poem
Language
Greek
Time
700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Hesiod. Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι [Works and Days]. c. 700 BC, l. 289.

Current Citation

Hesiod. "Works and Days." Theogony and Works and Days, translated by M. L. West. Oxford University Press, 2009, l. 289.

Another quote from 1940

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

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Nature of power

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Simone Weil
Language
French
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

Weil, Simone. "L'iliade ou le poeme de la force [The Iliad, or The Poem of Force]." Les Cahiers du Sud, 1940.

Current Citation

Weil, Simone. "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force." Simone Weil: An Anthology, translated by Sian Miles. Grove Press, 2000.