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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor." »Neil Gaiman
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"When thou art at rome, do as they do at rome." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball." »Charles V
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"Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball." »Charles V
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"I am the Roman emperor, and am above grammar." »Emperor Sigismund
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"Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I had rather be first in a village than second at rome." »Gaius Julius Caesar
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"I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It was the same with those old birds in Greece and rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." »Harry S Truman
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"Carter This is the United States of James Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito" »Rush Hour
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"If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I found rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." »Caesar Augustus
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"Ancient rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House" »Will Rogers
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"If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking rome and your cape got caught on something and you couldn't get it unhooked, and you had to ask another barbarian to unhook it for you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form." »Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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"When you are at rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere." »Saint Ambrose, Taylor
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"When you are at rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere." »Saint Ambrose
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"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve." »Sophia Loren
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"It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves." »Feltham
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"It was the boast of Augustus that he found rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham
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"He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man." »William Shakespeare
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