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Julia Agrippa

“[When asked why, despite her many infidelities, her five children all resembled her husband:] That is because passengers are never allowed on board until the hold is full.”
- Julia Agrippa,
- in Clifton Fadiman, ed., The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes (1985)

Julia Agrippa, Roman public figure

(39 BCE - 14 CE)

She was known as Julia the Elder, and was the only child of Augustus Caesar.