Air Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.” quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton — Download Open image

“Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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