First, the whole idea of Aggrandizing one nation and humiliating another must be set aside....
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter
Or rather it is as if there appeared within the heart of our civilization a common purpose and intelligence, now so palpably lacking, which magnetized and drew to itself all the streams of individual self-Aggrandizing effort.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
Let us suppose a man abandoned to all notions of virtue and honor, of no great family, and of but a mean fortune, raised to be chief Minister of State by the concurrence of many whimsical events; afraid or unwilling to trust to any but creatures of his own making, and most of these equally abandoned to all notions of virtue or honor; ignorant of the true interest of his country, and consulting nothing but that of enriching and Aggrandizing himself and his favorites."
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy