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from
"The Life of Brian," a 1979 film starring the Monty Python team
REG : They bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had. And not just from us, but from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
LORETTA : And from our fathers', fathers', fathers.
REG : Yeah.
LORETTA : And from our fathers', fathers', fathers', fathers.
REG : Yeah, all right, Stan. Don't belabor the point. And what have they ever given us in return?
REBEL 2 : The aquaduct?
REG : What?
REBEL 2 : The aquaduct.
REG : Oh yeah, yeah. They did give us that. That's true, yeah.
REBEL 3 : And sanitation.
LORETTA : Oh yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like.
REG : Yeah, all right, I'll grant you the aquaduct,the sanitation are two things the Romans have done...
MATHIAS : And the roads.
REG : Well, yeah. Obviously the roads, I mean the roads go without saying,don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aquaduct, and the roads...
REBEL 4 : Irrigation.
REBEL 2 : Medcine.
REBEL 5 : Education.
REG : Yeah, yeah, all right. Fair enough...
REBEL 1 : And the wine.
REBELS : Oh, yeah
FRANCIS : Yeah. Yeah, That's something that we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left, huh.
REBEL 6 : Public baths.
LORETTA : And it's safe to walk the in streets at night now Reg.
FRANCIS : Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it, the only ones who could in a place like this.
REG : All right. But apart from the sanitation, the medecine, education,wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health... What have the Romans ever done for us?
REBEL 2 : Brought peace?
REG : Oh, peace! Shaddup!
Books, Education,
Language and Literature
And Irrigation
A fresh water system
From a mountain spring
These were a few things
The Romans did bring
Then Sanitation,
Public Health Matters,
Straight roads and pavements
Street cleaners,such matters.
Baths for the people
Where they`d gossip, perhaps sing
These were a few things the Romans did bring.
When I see grapes
When I drink wine
When I`m feeling sad
I think of the Roman things that we acquired,
And then I feel ve....ry glad!
Maryemm with apologies to a certain lyricist.
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