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Letter "R" » roman
«I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?»
«One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs»
Author: Robert Firth
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indicate, lacking, programs, roman, Roman Empire, termination, The Fall, zero
«No Roman ever was able to say, `I dined last night with the Borgias'.»
«Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.»
«QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.He extracted from his quiver, Did the controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addressed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman. --Oglum P. Boomp»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Aboriginal, addressed, ancient Romans, extracted, fitted, foeman, lighter, lighters, portable, quiver, quivering, quivers, roman, sheath, statesman, submitted, unpersuaded
«PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ancient Romans, An Ancient, distinguished, His country, patrician, plebeian, roman, saturate, saturated
«Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.»
«Oh Tiber! father Tiber! / To whom the Romans pray, / A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, / Take thou in charge this day!»
«I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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creed, Greek, Greek Church, Jewish, professed, professing, Protestant, Protestants, Protestant Church, roman, Roman Church, the Greek, Turkish
«I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman»
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