Quote#Success & Failure
You think me ambitious: ambition, alas! is composed of more rugged…
Quote byHorace Walpole · 1717–1797
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Castle of Otranto (1764), Section 3.
English (original)
You think me ambitious: ambition, alas! is composed of more rugged materials. If I were ambitious, I should not for so many years have been a prey to all the hell of conscientious scruples.
— Horace Walpole
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