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AL MARTIN Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB
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OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO The Greeks believed that it was a citizen's duty to watch a play. It was a kind of work in that it r...
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STEPHANIE DRAY Secundus might lie rotting in his grave, but his relatives and followers yet lived. They believed th...
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James Dean was always a tortured soul. ANSEL ELGORT
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... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which r... KINGSLEY AMIS
At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome. UNKNOWN
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Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome. ROBERT DE NIRO
When in Rome, do as Rome does. AMBROSE BIERCE We've been slowly cleaning the place up. It's going to be a long road but we're getting there. Rome ...
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party. ADAM MCKAY It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up...
ALFRED DOMETT It appears that this was a very violent accident indeed,
MALCOLM WILSON This is not a violent offense. It was a consensual relationship.
DIANE POLAN I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James al...
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. OVID If you are going to come back at any place it's St James' with the crowd behind you.
MICHAEL OWEN Rome may not have been built in a day but Pompeii was destroyed in one.
CANDICE CAIN
Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was ali... G. K. CHESTERTON
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JULIE ADAMS Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was cor...
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