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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become Pope.' Instead I became a painter, and became Picasso.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
Every private in the army carries a field marshal's baton in his knapsack.
I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen.
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