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“I call to attention the people who shall live in the future, who shall consider this monument that I made for my father…Now my mind turned this way and that, anticipating the words of the people who shall see my monument in future years and speak of what I have done…He shall not declare what I have said to be an exaggeration. Rather, he will say, ‘How like her it is, loyal to her father!’”
- Hatshepsut

“He trod [the earth’s] end in might and victory seeking a fight, but he found no one who would stand up to him.”
“I made Egypt the chief, and the whole earth her servants.”
- Thutmose I victory inscriptions