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...would not even consider it until I had attained my ambition, for I was determined to try again.

— Jean Batten

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But England to Naples in a day is no mean feat for any man, let alone a girl without any previous long-distance experience.

I have experienced the cool, rarefied atmosphere of the Olympic heights where the famous dwell in lonely solitude.

Ted, if you love me, lend me the lower wings from your Moth.

If I go down in the sea...no one must fly out to look for me.

How bitter-sweet it all was, I reflected — flying about the world, visiting these great cities, meeting many people, making many friends, then having to fly off again.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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