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  • Ambition's a healthy impulse, and greed isn't, so it takes a little doing to sort it all out.

    Contentment: My life in Puerto Vallarta 2007

  • Ambition's a healthy impulse, and greed isn't, so it takes a little doing to sort it all out.

    Contentment: My life in Puerto Vallarta 2007

  • Ambition's cup is full, but its draught is bitter.

    Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius

  • Lords and ladies, lips that smiled and hearts all busy with the next link in Ambition's golden chain, on they swept into the pleasant outer air.

    Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903

  • The Cupid's bow had faded forever from his lip and childhood's innocence from his eye; he has crossed life's Rubicon, has passed at one stride from the Vale of Youth with its trifles and its idle tears, its ignorance of sex and stainless love, to Manhood's rugged mountains, where blazes Ambition's baleful star and the fires of passion ever beat, fiercer than those that sweep Gehenna's sulphurous hills.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • Ambition's the husband of Adiante Adister, and all who come nigh her are steps to her aim.

    Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Ambition's the husband of Adiante Adister, and all who come nigh her are steps to her aim.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • While the trumpets are blowing in Ambition's ear, it whispers of the grave.

    Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848

  • And unlike his experience writing nonfiction, Strobel found himself being led by "The Ambition's" characters.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • "Red lights are flashing in board rooms across the world with questions being asked around employment costs," Day, who is in charge of Ambition's business in Europe, Asia and Australia, said.

    unknown title 2011

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