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Readers offer their takes on a previous letter citing historical advice and the province's 'Growth that Works for Everyone' slogan. yxe skpoli

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As scholars have noted since the 1970s, the lines are a paraphrase of a passage from Taylor Caldwell’s 1965 novel, A Pillar of Iron, a fictional treatment of Cicero’s life. Mr. Tischler ends his letter by exhorting our elected officials to heed “Cicero’s” words, “lest our country becomes bankrupt and falls like the mighty Roman Empire.” Cicero was murdered before there was a Roman Empire.Article content

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