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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes: 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.
         

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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