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

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Esther Eberstadt Brooke

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English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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

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Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.