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In the meantime, if you want to succeed at a well-paid game, prepare yourself to do the work.

There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ments that were Martin Eden’s before he succeeded—which were mine before I succeeded.

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— Jack London
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