• Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

  Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer 1842-1914
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. overmastering
2. ridiculous
3. enemies
4. friends

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Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. by : Ambrose Bierce

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