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

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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24, 1842, Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio, USA date of death uncertain, possibly December 1913 or early 1914, presumably in Mexico) was an American satirist, critic, poet, short story writer, editor, and journalist. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version

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