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The game of ambition or resentment will be played by many of the rich and great as desperately, and with as much blindness to the consequences, as any other game.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke compares the reckless pursuit of ambition by the wealthy to the mindless nature of gambling.
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