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• Rome wasn't burnt in a day.
• Rome wasn't built in a day
• Rome didn't fall in a day either. -- Solomon Sho
• Rome was not built in one day. -- John Heywood
• Rome was not built in a day. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap.
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• Rome was not built in one day. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi
• While it is true that Rome was not built in a day, it is also true that the construction was not delayed by union jurisdictional disputes and craft union work stoppages.
• Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act iii, Sc. 5...
• The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act i, Sc. 1...