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If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Source: In Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992.
-- Thomas Wolfe, (Oct 3 1900-1938), US novelist; He is best known for his first novel, Look Homeward Angel, 1929.


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