"Do not read, as children do, to amuse……" — Gustave Flaubert

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• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
• It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family. — Michelle Bachelet
• When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people… — Russell Baker
• Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet… — Charles Baudelaire
• Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of… — Joseph Addison
• My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;… — Annie Besant
• Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. — Ambrose Bierce
• I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families.… — Tom Brady
• My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and… — Jo Brand
• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,… — Robert Burton
• The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute… — Jean de la Bruyere
• It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. — Louisa May Alcott

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