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Famous quotes containing the word obtained:

“The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“Things obtained too easily are regarded too lightly.”
—Chinese proverb.