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Cyril Connolly Quotes: The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
         

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.


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