I came, I saw, I conquered.

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  All Gaul is divided into three parts.

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  The die is cast.

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  Men willingly believe what they wish.

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  Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

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  Every generation, no doubt, believes itself called to remake the world. Mine knows that it will not remake it.

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  I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

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