By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream Virginia Woolf
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"By hook or by crook" refers to taking actions to reach one's goal, such as cheating or lying. This quote is Alfred Lord Tennyson's interpretation of Horace's poem, "Odes" (I.5.7). Horace had written: "The mind, like a clear brook, leaps over rocks." The idiom "by hook or by crook" means by any means necessary. "Crook" also has the meaning of an evil or crooked person.

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