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Hammer of Rome (Gaius Valerius Verrens, #9) by Douglas Jackson

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‘Forty years since you Romans first polluted the soil of this island and still you understand so little of its people. Everything must be seen through Roman eyes, even if that leaves you blind to what is happening in front of your nose.’

A familiar ring to it in these uncertain times...

Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

by James S.A. Corey

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Richard’s Quotes

“A shared pain is halved, a shared joy is doubled.”
― Matthew Harffy, Storm of Steel

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“(The world is full of idiots, and always has been. But sometimes I wonder why such a disproportionate quantity of them end up running other people’s lives.)”
― K.J. Parker, How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It

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“The Leechbook has recently been the focus of renewed study as, in March 2015, one of its recipes, which included garlic and the bile from a cow's stomach, was found to kill the hospital "superbug", Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).”
― Matthew Harffy, Blood and Blade

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“Some people have a tendency to dip their tongues in a pot of foolishness before they speak,”
― S.W. Perry, The Saracen's Mark

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