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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

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.

Shakespeare.