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Rome Wasn't Built in a Day may refer to:

Rome wasn't built in a day, an epigram
Rome Wasn't Built in a Day (TV series), a historical recreation
"Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" (song), a 2000 pop song by Morcheeba
A 1962 soul song by Johnnie Taylor

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+{{Wiktionary|Rome wasn't built in a day}}
-'''"Rome wasn't built in a day"''' is the usual English translation of a mediæval French phrase, «''Rome ne fu[t] pas faite toute en un jour''», from the collection ''Li Proverbe au Vilain'' (c. 1190; reprinted [http://archive.org/stream/liproverbeauvila00tobluoft#page/42/mode/2up here]); the modern French form is «''Rome [http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rome_ne_s%E2%80%99est_pas_faite_en_un_jour ne s'est pas faite] en un jour.''»
+'''Rome Wasn't Built in a Day''' may refer to:
+* [[Rome wasn't built in a day]], an epigram
-The expression (as "Rome was not built in one day") is given in English in [[John Heywood]]'s ''A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue'' (c.1538; reprinted [http://books.google.com/books?id=PVtLAAAAIAAJ&hl=en&pg=PA64 here]), while Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]] referred to the thought in Latin in an address at [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] in 1563.<ref>«''Hæc tamen vulgaris sententia me aliquantulum recreavit, quæ etsi non auferre, tamen minuere possit dolorem meum, quæ quidem sententia hæc est'', Romam uno die non fuisse conditam.» "But this common saying has given me a certain amount of comfort – a saying which cannot take away, but can at least lessen, the grief that I feel; and the saying is, that Rome was not built in one day." (See [http://books.google.com/books?id=VOZRAAAAcAAJ&hl=en&pg=PA176 here].) The [[Indirect discourse|''oratio recta'']] version of the Latin saying – the version one would use for a stand-alone quotation – would be ''Roma uno die non fuit condita''.</ref>
+* [[Rome Wasn't Built in a Day (TV series){{!}}''Rome Wasn't Built in a Day'' (TV series)]], a historical recreation
-As a title, '''''Rome Wasn't Built in a Day''''' may refer to:
+* [[Rome Wasn't Built in a Day (song)|"Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" (song)]], a 2000 pop song by Morcheeba
+* A 1962 soul song by [[Johnnie Taylor]]
-*[[Rome Wasn't Built in a Day (1962 song)]], single by [[Johnnie Taylor]]
-*[[Rome Wasn't Built in a Day (song)]], single by [[Morcheeba]]
-*[[Rome Wasn't Built in a Day (TV series)]], Channel 4 television series (2011)
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