“A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.”

— Steven Brust

Source: The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha (2003) https://vtmolo.com/quotes-about-ambition/ (vtmolo)]

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American fantasy and science fiction author 1955

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