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— Roger L'Estrange"Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself."
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Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die
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