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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.
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