Famous quotes containing the words long and/or track:
“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long headno intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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