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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations”, p.989
William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.149
Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub
Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.133, Oxford University Press
"Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XXXV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.
Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
"The Art of Writing" by André Maurois, ("The Writer's Craft," sct. 2), 1960.
Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage