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Oliver Cromwell

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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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Statement to Pomponne de Bellievre, as told to Cardinal de Retz in 1651; Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (1717)
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Variant: One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.

 
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