Quotes with besieged

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• The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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• Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• conquered
• servitor
• learning
• little
• every

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