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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ↗

— John Buchan

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The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon. ↗

— Russell Lynes

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I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. ↗

— Ellen Terry

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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself. ↗

— Citium Zeno

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. ↗

— Voltaire

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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. ↗