Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. (Jonathan Swift)

Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift

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