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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Philip Massinger

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Philip Massinger
Age: 57 †
Born: 1583
Born: January 1
Died: 1640
Died: January 1
Dramatist
Playwright
Writer
Salisbury
England
Philip Massinger
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Vice
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Ambition
Private
Virtue
Men

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