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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:6902
AUTHOR:Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1809–1892)
QUOTATION:        Ambition
Is like the sea wave, which the more you drink
The more you thirst—yea—drink too much, as men
Have done on rafts of wreck—it drives you mad.
ATTRIBUTION:The Cup. Act i. Scene 3.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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