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    When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
    the second or even the third rank.
    [Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis,
    tertiisque consistere.]

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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

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We grow small trying to be great.

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