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Lindsey Davis - Time to Depart (1995)

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Not all the fine civic building programmes in the world would ever displace the raw forces that drive most of humankind. This was the true city: greed, corruption and violence.

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'Do you kill people?'
'Not regularly. It's too much trouble making my peace with the gods afterwards.'


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Smartness always helps in gaining access to the houses of the wealthy. Anyone with a clean face is acceptable to thugs.

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He wore the purple; it was his entitlement. With it he had neither wreath nor jewels. For him the best adornment of rank was acute native intelligence.

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Born: August 21, 1949 (age 76)
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