"For what are the triumphs of war, planned……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages…
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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are…
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War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally…
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Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call…
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