To know another person's fortune smacks of wanting to contr… - Lindsey Davis

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To know another person's fortune smacks of wanting to control their fate for the wrong reasons.

Lindsey Davis

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Lindsey Davis (born 1949) is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of historical crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.

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Mark Twain Robert A. Heinlein George Bernard Shaw Jonathan Swift Lois McMaster Bujold

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To know another person's fortune smacks of wanting to control their fate for the wrong reasons. - Lindsey Davis

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