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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 590
AUTHOR: Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
QUOTATION: Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
ATTRIBUTION: OSCAR WILDE, “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young,” The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, vol. 10, p. 213 (1923).

See also No. 1306.
SUBJECTS: Failure