Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it. ✨ Jonathan S…

Jonathan Stroud
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Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it. ✨ Jonathan Stroud (2003). Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition), Disney-Hyperion
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