Edward Bates Quote

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


The diary of Edward Bates, 1859-1866 (ed. 1933)


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

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

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

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