The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.


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