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William SHAKESPEARE: Lowliness

SHAKESPEPARWILLIAM400

William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)

Lowliness

Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, sc.1
Shakespeare 400 (1616 – 2016)

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