Ambition Is like the sea wave, which the more you drink The more you thirst-yea-drink too much, as men Have done on rafts of wreck-it drives you mad. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

Ambition Is like the sea wave, which the more you drink The more you thirst-yea-drink too much, as men Have done on rafts of wreck-it drives you mad.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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