John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), Part I, line 198
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But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
— John Dryden on Ambition
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Source: Wikiquote: "Ambition" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 20-21.)
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