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"Claudius was often portrayed as an awkward, disfigured, and clumsy man. Cast out by his own family as a boy, he was utterly detested by his mother. No-one ever expected that the boy that was used as the comparative standard for stupidity would become the emperor of Rome. Yet, he did."

“Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.” —Claudius