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Age of Enlightenment2 quotes
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. — Samuel Johnson · 1771Ambition can creep as well as soar. — Edmund Burke · 1797The Renaissance2 quotes
Virtue is choked with foul ambition. — William Shakespeare · 1594Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But, when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend. — William Shakespeare · 1599