Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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