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• To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

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  Men, Good Man, Citizens

  "An Examination of the Isis Cult with Preliminary Exploration into New Testament Studies". Book by Elizabeth A. McCabe, October 29, 2007.

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• After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

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  Time, Power, Office

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• Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

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  Husband, Children, Giving Up

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• He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.

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  Loss, Winning, Order

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• Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!

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  Play, Roles, Comedy

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• I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

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  Mean, Italian, Agriculture

  "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.

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• Only that which is well done is quickly done.

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  Latin, Done, Wells

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• Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.

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  Latin, Farewell, Alive

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