No woman who builds a career on hard work and talent will e… - Lindsey Davis

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No woman who builds a career on hard work and talent will ever compliment a much younger one who uses the shallow gift of her looks.

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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'How old now?'
'Thirty. Downhill to the dark boat across the Styx. Probably be sick over the side in Charon's ferry too…'

This was no more cynical than most lying lozenge-pushers, but when he thought it mattered, Rhoemetalces had been honest. We cannot have that. Rome is a complex, sophisticated society. Truth is distrusted as much as Greek philosophy.

Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

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