Ambition does not see the ...

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
 Walter Savage Landor

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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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