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

Ambrose Bierce
Life, Ambition, Reality
Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 17
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.