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

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

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The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. – Thomas Jefferson, 1813

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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. – Mao Zedong

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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. – Michel de Montaigne

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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. – Norman Cousins

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