"Rome was not built in a day."
— Rome
January 1, 1970
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Original Language: English
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Latin in Palingenius (1537). Beaumont and Fletcher, Little French Lawyer, Act I, scene 3. Same idea "No se ganó Zamora en una hora.—Zamora was not conquered in an hour." Cervantes, Don Quixote, II. 23. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 677.
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Latin in Palingenius (1537). Beaumont and Fletcher, Little French Lawyer, Act I, scene 3. Same idea "No se ganó Zamora en una hora.—Zamora was not conquered in an hour." Cervantes, Don Quixote, II. 23. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 677.