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Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character
Edward Bates
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Edward Bates
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Born:
September 4, 1793
Died:
March 25, 1869
(aged 75)
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Edward Bates was a U.S. lawyer and statesman. He served as the first attorney general of Missouri after it was admitted as a state.
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The diary of Edward Bates, 1859-1866
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