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Stick with it, Xanthus. There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands.

— Lindsey Davis The Iron Hand of Mars (1992)

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The world is full of people slandering their birthplaces, as if they really believe that small-town life is different elsewhere.

Last Act in Palmyra (1994)

Popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.

The Silver Pigs (1989)

Architectural drawings may look beautiful and be admired by critics but to be good, they have to work in daily use.

A Body in the Bath House (2001)

The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers.

Shadows in Bronze (1990)

Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.

The Course of Honor (1997)

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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1601)

O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

Horace Satires (-35)

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)

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