#inflame

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. ↗

— Thomas Otway

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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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