Edward Bates Quotes

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.

Edward Bates

• Character
• Passion
• Happiness
• Ambition
• Respectability

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• Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.

  

  Edward Bates
  • Character
  • Passion
  • Happiness