"Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?"

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Source : Polybius, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (2012). “The Histories of Polybius: Translated from the Text of F. Hultsch”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

Polybius

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“Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.”
“I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.”
“School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.”
“One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.”
“The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.”
“We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprootedÂ from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as blackÂ Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves andÂ attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we hadÂ stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. AndÂ because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's hasÂ been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.”

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