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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
— Henry David Thoreau
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To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
— Alexander Hamilton
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