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— Fisher Ames"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty."
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
— Thomas Huxley
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