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Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
– Herman Melville

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  10. … the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, – Herman Melville
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