Thoroughnesscharacterizes

Thoroughnesscharacterizes
Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.
  

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