Ambrose Bierce's Quote - Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while

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

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