Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it …

T. S. Eliot
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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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