Ambition has its disappointments to sour

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	"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires." - -- Benjamin franklin

Top 5 quotes from Benjamin franklin

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
"If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life."
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
"But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."

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