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'We'll be the Indians, if we last another twenty years,' Augustus said.'The way this place is settling up it'll be nothing but churches and dry-goods stores before you know it.Next thing you know they'll haveto round up us old rowdies and stick us on a reservation to keep us from scaring the ladies.'
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The first-known public lottery was sponsored by Augustus Caesar to raise funds for repairing the city of Rome; the first public lottery awarding money prizes, the Lotto de Firenze, was established in Florence in 1530.

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— Chapter Four, Coins, Wheels, And Oddments, p. 119

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He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.

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— Plutarch

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"That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt."

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— The Fault in Our Stars, Augustus "Gus" Waters (2012, p. 63)

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Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar , Virgil and Augustus .

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— Speech at the 5th Levantine Fair (6 September 1934) in reference to German Nordicism; quoted in Hitler's Ten-year War on the Jews (1946) by the Institute of Jewish Affairs

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Augustus: I'm Augustus Gloop. I love your chocolate. Willy Wonka: I can see that.


— Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Sourced)

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He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.


— Plutarch

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Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar , Virgil and Augustus .


— Benito Mussolini's early opinion of Nazism, as quoted in Hitler's Ten-year War on the Jews (1946), by Institute of Jewish Affairs

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