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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn’t my debts I shouldn’t have anything to think about.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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