"Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't."
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Dick Francis
Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British jockey and horse racing crime writer.
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