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There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.29
There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.