Quote#Success & Failure
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds
Quote byEliza Cook · 1812–1889
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Poor Hood", st. 4. Poetical Works (London: Frederick Warne & Co. 1869) p. 577.
English (original)
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds.
— Eliza Cook
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