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• That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iv, Line 122...
• Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
  -- John Webster c.1580-c.1625)...
• Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Boies Penrose
• When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.
  -- Edward Everett (1794-1865) -- Alaric the Visigoth...
• The vain beauty cares most for the conquest which employed the whole artillery of her charms.
  -- Edward Garre...
• Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
  -- William Lilly...
• My ambition is to marry a rich woman who's too proud to let her husband work.
• QOTD: "My ambition is to marry a rich woman who's too proud to let her husband work.
• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry