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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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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? – James Barrie

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Kindness
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.. its a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you dont need to have anything else; and if you dont have it, it doesnt much matter what else you have. – James Barrie

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Women
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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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Fairy Tales
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls. – Italian Proverb

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Ambition

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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Ambition

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

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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. – Akhenaton

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Im always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I dont get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself. – Willie Stargell

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A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. – Kin Hubbard

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I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didnt have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. – Charles Kuralt

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