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See: HOWLING SUCCESS, NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS.

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[nothing succeeds like success] Success in one thing makes success in other things easier; people like a successful person. - A proverb. * /The girls all like Bob because he […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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Daily Mail (May 16, 1984) Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands. www.english-slang.com

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