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“Not for the first time I felt myself confronted by the dizzying possibility that an entire episode in the story of mankind might have…

— Graham Hancock

“Wester, Nander, Estill, Sunder, and the Middluns—the five inner kingdoms—had once known how to coexist peacefully. Centuries back they had all been of the…

— Kristin Cashore

When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius…

— Steven Saylor

The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Pow'r in…

— John Dryden

As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.

— Laozi

“My shamans have read the sands. They have learned much of your future. (...)’ Gamet was scowling. ‘I do not wish to offend, Warchief,…

— Steven Erikson

The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of…

— Isaac Newton

There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

— Chuck Berry

The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no…

— Hugh Miller

Such is the caprice of Romans... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred kings.

— Pierre Corneille

“[Egyptian] advances in medicine, however, as well as in other areas of science, were limited to their attempts to solve the problems confronting them.…

— Norman F. Cantor

Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been…

— Spencer Wells