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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

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After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. ↗

— George C. Wallace

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We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

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I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. ↗

— Tori Amos

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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. ↗

— James McGreevey

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It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

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There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence. ↗

— Queen Mary

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