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Edward Bates Quotes: Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character
         

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character


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