get far

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People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system. Max Hastings

If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home. Tom Waits

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge. Margaret Atwood

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity. Josephine Baker

You can get far with a lie, but not come back. American Proverb

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