• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist 1706-1790
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. disappointments
2. indulgence
3. insatiable
4. gratify
5. present
6. inflame

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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. by : Benjamin Franklin

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