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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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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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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. – 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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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Henry Ward Beecher

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato

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