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But Wild Ambition Loves To Slide, Not Stand, And Fortune's Ice Prefers To Virtue's Land.
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But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700)
-- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 198
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