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if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.
Patricia Wentworth / Fiction Writer
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if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.
⇛ Patricia Wentworth (Fiction Writer)

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Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

Patricia Wentworth Fiction Writer

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

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It is always better to say too little than too much.

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Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

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The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in the world and have half of the dreams and ambitions. Our slogan is, "If they see it, they can be it."

Geena Davis Actress

Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith Philosopher

No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.

Adrian Rogers Pastor

The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.

Alexis De Tocqueville Historian

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

Alphonse De Lamartine Writer

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