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it is not too fanciful to guess that the plan's inventor was the man

The only eventuality Octavian wanted to avoid was Antony joining him in the war against Sextus.

Varus saw it, the army was there on a policing rather than a military mission.

Octavius was already married to a woman of whom history has recorded nothing except for her name, Ancharia.

he married Atia, a member of the Julian family.

the Rhine was to be the permanent boundary between Romanized Gaul and the barbarians of central Europe.

He also made the technical point that the adoption was not yet official

the only item he personally took away from the palace of the Ptolemies was a single agate cup.

and gave orders that "should anything happen to her" after his death she should not be buried in the Mausoleum.

Cicero—were relieved that peace and, above all, certainty had returned

What's past is prologue. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Don't bother me with all that history crap. It just gets in the way of action! United States Army colonel, Vietnam, mid-1960s

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.

I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.

Ban Nab. It's a palindrome.' He said nothing, so I added: 'It reads the same forwards and backwards.' 'Do geese see God?' Hawthorne asked.

Stop right there,' I said. 'If we're going to have rules, the main rule is that you never ask me about my private life: not my books, not my TV, not my family, not my friends.' 'I'm interested you put them in that order...

If you've ever read the French philosopher Alain Badiou, you'll know that he defines jokes as a type of rupture that opens up truths.

From the moment I was able to make my own decisions, I became what has come to be called a vegetarian – a word that originated here in England, you might like to know.

I've made some tea,' Judith Matheson said. Of course she had. She was the sort of woman who would always make tea no matter what the crisis. Lose your leg in a hideous industrial accident and she'd be there with a nice cup of Earl Grey.

Their proof-reader tried to kill herself. She shot herself with a gun.

German accent, as if he

He had an extraordinary presence that could be saturnine, threatening or magnetic, depending on his mood.

Well,' I tried, 'I suppose it's the thought that counts.' 'Yes. He thought we wouldn't notice he's a complete cheapskate

content and only his death would suffice. The metal key that

I've often been quite tempted to write a book." "You could have the launch party back in jail.