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or certainly that's how it was used
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in the eighteenth century.
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Any young man would have read Plutarch's Lives
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and would have learned--
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the greatest thing I can do
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is to be a great statesman and found a nation,
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and here are great examples for me to follow.
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So given this kind of a logic,
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there's a good reason why Hamilton's comment
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about Caesar might have been shocking to Jefferson.
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It's not just a little interesting intellectual sort of "Ha"
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on the part of Hamilton: