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Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

William Feather

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William Feather
Age: 91 †
Born: 1889
Born: August 25
Died: 1981
Died: January 7
Author
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Jamestown
New York
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Achievement
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Others
Matter
Great
Clinging

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