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all roads lead to Rome

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All the alternatives will lead to the same result. The allusion is to the road system that was built to connect all parts of the far-flung Roman Empire with Rome. "All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground" (Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, 1898).

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