"The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it."

Bagehot, Walter on Observation
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"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

Barton, Bruce on Courage
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"Nowadays people can be divided into three classes -- the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves"

Wilson, Earl on Debt
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"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."

Teasdale, Sara on Opportunity
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"Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing."

Southey, Robert on Ambition
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"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

Rogers, Kenny on Ambition
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"The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune."

Penn, William on Ambition
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