Samuel Johnson Quotes on Ambition
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.
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Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.