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The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

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Phaedrus

Phaedrus (c. 15 BC - c. AD 50), Roman fabulist, was probably a thracian slave , born in Pydna of Macedonia (Roman province) and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius and Claudius.He is recognized as the first writer to latinize entire books of fables, using the iambic metre Greek prose of the Aesop tales.

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