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“I’m not going to build a costly monument to my father. I’m going to make his name known round the world.”
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The speaker rejects a costly physical monument as the way to honor their father. They prefer to spread his name widely, so that people around the world remember him. The contrast is between building something large and making a person’s reputation endure through public recognition.
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- TIME, “Retail Trade: The Sweet Smell of Bread”
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