“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do”
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“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do”
“The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes”
“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness”
“Ambition and suspicion always go together”
“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions”