Robert Penn Warren :
A young man’s ambition — to get along in the world and make a place for himself — half your life goes that way, till you’re 45 or 50. Then, if you’re lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.
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Ambition
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Happiness
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Life and Living
Gift it
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