• Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

  Edward Dahlberg
  American novelist, essayist and autobiographer 1900-1977
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1. precisely
2. greatest
3. seeking

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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. by : Edward Dahlberg

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