Ambitious Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

“When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no common destiny. But this is a delusion which experience quickly corrects.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

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