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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.

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Charles Caleb Colton

British priest and writer

January 1st, 1780 - January 1st, 1832

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