The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce

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Ambition: an overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. Amnesty: the state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. Anoint: to grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

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