“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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2 quotes“He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.”
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2 quotes“Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.”
Lily Tomlin
2 quotes“I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.”
Audrey Hepburn
1 quote“I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.”
Ayn Rand
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Cicero
1 quote“If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.”