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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour, Vol. 1 of 2
They who are near the perfons of Kings, for, the molt part, furs the common. Run of mankind, both in natural and acquired talents 5 for ambition -is' ever attended with a fort of capacity to compafs its ends; and all courtiers are ambitious.
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