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

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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. – Robert Browning

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