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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls. – Italian Proverb

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Henry Ward Beecher

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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambitions hands. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do. – Robert Browning

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