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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.

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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

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Where ambition ends happiness begins.

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.

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