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royal road

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Noun1.royal road - an auspicious way or means to achieve something; "the royal road to success"
road - a way or means to achieve something; "the road to fame"
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Have a small Sullivan first: it's the royal road to a cigar.
A Thief in the Night by Hornung, E. W. View in context
He must not understand too well the instincts, customs, and mental processes of the blacks, the yellows, and the browns; for it is not in such fashion that the white race has tramped its royal road around the world.
South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context
The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamoured maiden, however little she may possess of related faculty; and the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works, and will travel a royal road to particular knowledges and powers.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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