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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson
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A. C. Benson
Age: 63 †
Born: 1862
Born: April 24
Died: 1925
Died: June 16
Autobiographer
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Arthur Christopher Benson
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