Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention's goal.

La diligencia es madre de la buena ventura y la pereza, su contrario, jamas llego al termino que pide un buen deseo.

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Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.