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Ambition is our idol, on whose wings Great minds are carry'd only to extreme; To be sublimely great, or to be nothing.
Ambition is our idol, on whose wings Great minds are carry'd only to extreme; To be sublimely great, or to be nothing.
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- Thos. Southerne (identity unresolved)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 21 · quotation 17 · Thos. Southerne · The Loyal Brother. Act I. Sc. 1.
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