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For a time, like a caged tiger, he bit at the bars that seemed to limit his ambition.
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gutenberg.orgDe Alexander: “For a time, like a caged tiger, he bit at the bars that seemed to limit his ambition.”
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Alexander uses a vivid metaphor to describe a leader's frustration with limitations on his ambitions.
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