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by gavmor 378 days ago
> It's a shame people lose sight of the ground beneath their feet when reaching to the sky

Shakespeare:

> 'tis a common proof \ That 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.

(Brutus, of Caesar, Julius Caesar)