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“I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
— Og Mandino
Author of The Greatest Salesman in the World
The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 15 : The Scroll Marked VIII, p. 91.
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