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• The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

  John Foxe

  Rome, Years, Church

  John Foxe, John Malham, T. Pratt (1830). “Fox's Book of Martyrs; Or, The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church: Being a Complete History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Christian Martyrs; from the Commencement of Christianity to the Present Period. To which is Added an Account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew Massacre in France, the General Persecution Under Louis XIV, the Massacres in the Irish Rebellions in the Years 1641, and 1798, Rise, Progress, and Persecutions of the People Commonly Called Quakers, Together with an Account of the Western Martyrology, Or Bloody Assizes; with the Lives of Some of the Early Eminent Reformers ...”, p.410

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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

  Kings, Keys, Sheep

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• An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Crowns, Half, Appearance

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• The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

  Ambrose

  Government, Church

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• The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

  Michel de Montaigne

  Soul, Cobblers, Mould

  Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.244

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• He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Art, Men, Tears

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.119, Macmillan

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• The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Preparation, Weight

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.15, Modern Library

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• I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

  Marcel Carne

  Art, Japan, Important

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• There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

  Frederic Farrar

  Brother, Uncles, Names

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.74

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• Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

  Paul Eldridge

  Life, Death, Tombstone

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• I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

  Mira Nair

  Children, Honesty, Clothes

  Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.

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• Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

  William Adams

  Done, Captains, Ships

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• We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

  Emperor Norton

  Leader, Catholic, Church

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• During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.

  Max Brooks

  Wall, Book, Flames

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.186, Broadway Books

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• Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

  Gore Vidal

  Usurpers, Succeed, Patriot

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 21, 2016

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• The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Kings, World Government, Order

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• In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Character, Voice, Clothes

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• As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

  Kit Williams

  Feet, Would Be, Way

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• The place that does
  Contain my books, the best companions, is
  To me a glorious court, where hourly I
  Converse with the, old sages and philosophers;
  And sometimes for variety, I confer
  With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
  Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
  Unto a strict account; and in my fancy,
  Deface their ill-plac'd statutes.

  John William Fletcher

  Kings, Book, Victory

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• The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great

  Dan Brown

  Today, Pagan, Constantine

  Dan Brown (2016). “The Da Vinci Code (The Young Adult Adaptation)”, p.205, Delacorte Press

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• I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

  William Butler Yeats

  Byzantium, Bird, Tree

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.503

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• Once upon a time humans faced each other and pulled thoughts from minds, advanced rapidly, revolutionised industry and evolved explosively. Then one day they stopped, and stared at a box. They grew fat and awkward in public, stopped expressing emotions and couldn't figure out how to reverse it: they reinvented themselves from Emperors back into prawns, because someone turned the TV on.

  Craig Stone

  Once Upon A Time, Awkward, Mind

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• An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Soldier

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• The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, Army, Europe

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon's life in camp and cabinet, from the French of M. de Bourienne, Segur, Las Cases, &c. &c. &c”, Рипол Классик

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• On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  Religious, Children, Giving Up

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