Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!Walter Savage Landor
Great men always pay deference to greater.
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George the First was always reckoned Vile, but viler George the Second And what mortal ever heard Any good of George the Third When from earth the Fourth descended God be praised, the Georges ended.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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