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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Henry David Thoreau: "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's Quotations

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Ambitious	Body	Booby	Constructing
Degraded	Dogs	Drowned	Enough
Fact	Found	Given	Lives
Manlier	Nile	Nothing	Pyramids
Spend	Them	Tomb	Whom
Wiser	Wonder

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