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Quote by William Hazlitt
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. - William Hazlitt

The incentive to ambition is the love of power. – William Hazlitt

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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. – William Hazlitt

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Success
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. – William Hazlitt

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Friendship
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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. – Thomas Malthus

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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. – Jeremy Bentham

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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? – Khalil Gibran

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. – Eric Hoffer

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