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• I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
• Hasten slowly. [festina lente] -- Augustus Caesa
• O Rome! my country! city of the soul!
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, Stanza 78...
• Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Julius Caesar -- Act iii, Sc. 2...
• Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say.
  It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare....
• I prefer CITY-TV to Country Radio.
• As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 2...
• For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• City Baby Attacked by Rats.