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• Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you will see farther.
• The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
• A man is average when he can see the other man's faul
  he becomes above average only when he can also see his own....
• You can see farther into a millstone than he.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iii, Chap xxviii...