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"Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds."
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"Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth."
"If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything."
"A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches."
"He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success."
"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."
"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us."
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"For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded."
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."
"Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that."
"Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"
"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."
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