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Which early Imperial Roman writer said this about grains?
I definitively although vaguely recall a quote by a (first century AD?) Roman that asserts more or less that civilised Romans use wheat in baking, whereas Germans/Celts (I forget which) would use rye (...
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Is "A state that is not able to feed itself...[is not]…a formidable foe" a quote by a historically known figure?
I ran into a quote (or a paraphrase) in a book that I couldn't ever attribute:
A state that is not able to feed itself and is dependent on food imports cannot be considered a formidable foe.
While ...
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