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I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

Augustus

Only that which is well done is quickly done.
AUGUSTUS

One Liner Quick Well
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
AUGUSTUS

Conquer Race Roman World
Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
AUGUSTUS

Death Life Myself Play Role
I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
AUGUSTUS

Assumption Factory Myself Thinking World
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS

Brick Finding Inspirational Marble Myself Transformation
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS

Himself Listening Men Young
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.
AUGUSTUS

Authority Friendship Myself Office Position Time
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
AUGUSTUS

Death King Meet Myself
Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
AUGUSTUS

Alive Farewell Marriage Ourselves Togetherness
Make haste cautiously.
AUGUSTUS

Caution Haste One Liner
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
AUGUSTUS

Hands Myself Part Play Praise Stage
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.
AUGUSTUS

Agriculture City Courage Goodness Grain Mindset Myself People Politician Review
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
AUGUSTUS

Citizenship Survive Wife
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
AUGUSTUS

Better Boss Command Oneself
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.
AUGUSTUS

Age Expense Initiative Liberty Myself Oppression Order Raise Republic Resolution Restore Service
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
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Common Worth Yourself

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