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all roads lead to Rome

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There are many different ways to achieve the same result, or to come to the same conclusion: "All roads lead to Rome: and even animal individuality throws a ray on human problems" (J. S. Huxley, The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, 1912). The proverb was first recorded, with different wording, in Chaucer's Prologue to Astrolabe (c. 1391). Compare the medieval Latin proverb "Mille vie ducunt hominem per secula Romam [A thousand roads lead man forever toward Rome]." In modern use other place-names are sometimes substituted for Rome.

Proverbs expressing similar meaning: there are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream; there's more than one way to skin a cat.

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