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“Low ambition and the thirst of praise.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Table Talk. Line 591.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ccb19ade9aec545916ff9fd9d6c0b091b9904780985c4ad7a7871f0d0dbd217d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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