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Be Sure Of This, O Young Ambition, All Mortal Greatness Is But Disease.
-Herman Melville
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Be Sure Of This, O Young Ambition,
Herman Melville
Be Sure Of This, O Young Ambition, All Mortal Greatness Is But Disease.
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