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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold Toynbee
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
August 23, 1852
Died:
March 9, 1883
(aged 30)
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