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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

— Michel de Montaigne

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  1. An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
  2. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
  3. Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
  4. A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
  5. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
  6. Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to furth…
  7. Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.
  8. Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet- the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which die…

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  • character
  • ambition

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