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Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds. - James Barri

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

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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. – James Barrie

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When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl. – James Barrie

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Every time a child says, I dont believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. – James Barrie

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Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do! – Robert Browning

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We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd. – Anon.

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Hasty climbers have sudden falls. – Italian Proverb

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. – Aristophanes

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Either I will find a way, or I will make one. – Sir Philip Sidney

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Education is the cheap defense of nations. – Edmund Burke

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