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Famous quotes containing the word obtained:

“The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

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

“Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)