Cassius Dio quotes
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“The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.”
-- Cassius Dio
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
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“TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard”
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“I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!”
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“Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.”
Source : Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.156, Cambridge University Press
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