There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.


Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside (ed. 1853)

William Gilmore Simms Quotes

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it...

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it...

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it...

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it...