📖 Quote about ambition
L'ambition souvent fait accepter les fonctions les plus basses ; c'est ainsi que l'on grimpe dans la même posture que l'on rampe.
Ambition often leads to acceptance of the lowest functions; this is how we climb in the same posture as we crawl.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
— Jonathan Swift Dublin 1667-Dublin 1745
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