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Ambition can creep as well as soar. - Edmund Burke

Ambition can creep as well as soar. – Edmund Burke

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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. – Edmund Burke

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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. – William Blake

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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Ambition — it is the last infirmity of noble minds. – James Barrie

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There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by ones own industry, or by the stupidity of others. – Jean De La Bruyere

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