Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Robert Southey
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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
- Robert Southey