I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Alexander The Great
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  5. If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the...

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