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“'T is a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c13158c32aa9c2d1291381ab820536e554ee68a3af96444310a58d628f1a097e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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