I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Quoted in Lives of the Caesars, by Suetonius
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Augustus, Caesar. Quoted in De vita Caesarum [About the Life of the Caesars], written by Suetonius. c. 121.
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Augustus, Caesar. Quoted in The Lives of the Caesars, written by Suetonius, translated by Catharine Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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