Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose BierceNOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
Ambrose BierceIt is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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