“Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Taanis Gedanken, 1896. Alle Verk, xii. 77.
“If unjustified, ambition kills value, eats its own life, kills someone else's desire to fly, cuts their wings, sucks their air.”
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